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- 1932-1933 (Creation)
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98 ff. with insertions ; 325 x 200 mm.
Quarter cloth.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, August 1932-May 1933, containing journal entries, impressions of her stay in Vienna, October-November 1932 (ff. 12-54) and notes for fiction, short stories and articles. Some forty-four personal and family letters, cards and telegrams; press cuttings referring to her and to contemporary events; photographs; theatre, concert and film programmes (mostly German); and other ephemera, 1929-1930, 1932-1933, have been pasted in or are loose in the volume.
The correspondents include her husband Oliver Onions, November 1932 (ff. 42 verso, 84), Alec Waugh, [September] 1932 (f. 10 verso), Ivan Phillipowsky, [December 1932] (f. 64), Ménie Muriel FitzGerald (née Dowie), [1933] (ff. 72-73), and John van Druten, 27 October 1932 (ff. 85-86); a letter from Amy Mollison [i.e. Amy Johnson] to the Secretary of the London Airplane Club, 21 November 1932, is also included (f. 91). There are references to Maurice Bowra, whom she befriended in Vienna (ff. 22 verso, 24, 32, 37-38 verso) and Eric Maschwitz (ff. 52, 56, 66 verso, 75 verso, 84 verso), and references throughout to aviation and the exploits of famous aviators of her acquaintance. There are pen and ink drawings by Ruck on ff. 37 verso and 57.
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English, German.
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Leaves removed between ff. 20 and 21, 37 and 38.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23716D.
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- Maschwitz, Eric, 1901-1969. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- Austria (Subject)
- Onions, Oliver, 1873-1961 (Subject)
- Waugh, Alec, 1898-1981 (Subject)
- Dowie, Ménie Muriel, 1867-1945. (Subject)
- Van Druten, John, 1901-1957. (Subject)
- Johnson, Amy, 1903-1941 (Subject)
- Phillipowsky, Ivan, 1895-1951. (Subject)
- Bowra, C. M. (Cecil Maurice), 1898-1971 (Subject)