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- 1921-1923 (Creation)
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85 ff. with insertions (ff. 22 verso-48 verso, 52 verso-85 verso blank) ; 230 x 175 mm.
Quarter-cloth and paper over boards; 'WINTER 1922. SOUTH OF FRANCE (1st time!) and CORSICA' (label on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, December 1922-January 1923, containing a journal of a visit to the south of France and Corsica (ff. 1-21).
The journal records her car journey from Paris to Cannes, in the company of Ménie Muriel FitzGerald, December 1922 (ff. 1 verso-5), her stay at Cannes, including visits to Nice and Monte Carlo, December 1922 (ff. 5-11) and her visit to Corsica, December 1922-January 1923 (ff. 11 verso-21). There are also fragments of journal entries from September 1921 (f. 49) and October 1921 (f. 50 recto-verso). A letter from Dr George Williamson to a Mrs Hueffer, 6 June 1923, possibly about Ruck, is f. 22a. A leaf containing cartoons and jottings is f. 52a.
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English, French.
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Leaves removed before f. 1 and after ff. 31, 49 and 61; f. 50 loose.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23735C.
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- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- France (Subject)
- Williamson, George Charles, 1858-1942. (Subject)