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- 1926-1927 (Creation)
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71 ff. with insertions (71 verso inverted text) ; 240 x 195 mm.
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, October 1926-September 1927, containing a journal, mainly of her visits to Le Portel, near Boulogne, October 1926 (ff. 1-6), August-September 1927 (ff. 19-70 verso), and notes for fiction. Some sixteen letters, playbills and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Sir E. Ray Lankester, November [1926]-August [1927] (ff. 9, 64 verso), Edgar Wallace, 8 February 1927 (f. 18 verso), and Rebecca West, [8] July 1927 (f. 58). There are references to Rebecca West (f. 12 verso) and the late E. Nesbit (f. 23), and descriptions of a travelling French theatre company at Le Portel (ff. 30-31 verso, 33 recto-verso, 35, 45 verso-47 verso, 52-53 verso, 56-57 verso, 65), and of a visit to Paris (ff. 24 verso-28). Ink, pencil and watercolour sketches by the author are on ff. 4 verso, 32, 36 verso-37, 38 verso, and a photograph of her is on f. 55 verso. A ticket for a lecture in Pantperthog, 26 February 1895, is on f. 15.
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English, French.
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Many leaves removed or lost; bindings disintegrating; covers lost.
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The notebook fragment NLW MS 23734C, ff. 17-36 describes the period July-September 1926 and possibly belongs to the beginning of this manuscript.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23736C.
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- Nesbit, E. (Edith), 1858-1924. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- France (Subject)
- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929. (Subject)
- Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932. (Subject)
- West, Rebecca, 1892-1983 (Subject)