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- 1927 (Creation)
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i, 69 ff. with insertions ; 215 x 170 mm.
Half-cloth; 'NOTE-BOOK. JUNE [sic] 1927 LE PORTEL. NOVEMBER 1927 PARIS.' (label on front cover).
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Notebook of Berta Ruck, September-November 1927, containing a journal mainly of her visits to Le Portel, near Boulogne (ff. 1 verso-14 verso), the Côte d'Azur (ff. 31 verso-58 verso), and Paris (ff. 59-68 verso), France, and notes for fiction. Some twelve letters from family and friends, playbills and other ephemera have been pasted in.
The correspondents include Ivor Nicholson, 28 September 1927 (f. 23 verso), and S[alomon] Reinach, 1 October 1927 (f. 24). There are references to Norman Haire (f. 15 verso), the death of Isadora Duncan (f. 9), and Sir Ray Lankester's ill health (ff. 25 verso-26 verso, 31, 34 verso, 47 verso). Also included are ink, pencil and watercolour sketches by Ruck (inside the front cover and on ff. i recto-verso, 3, 4 verso, 7, 8, 10 verso, 28, 40, 57, 65) and photographs of her (ff. 13 recto-verso, 14 verso), and her family (f. 22 verso). The photograph on f. 13 was published in A Story-Teller Tells the Truth (London, 1935), facing p. 276.
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English, French.
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'A Notebook from June [her secretary] Portel 1927' (ink on ff. i, 69 verso).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23737B.
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- Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir, 1847-1929 -- Health. (Subject)
- Duncan, Isadora, 1877-1927 -- Death and burial. (Subject)
- Haire, Norman, 1892-1952 (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Photographs. (Subject)
- Ruck family, of Pennal -- Photographs (Subject)
- Ruck, Berta, 1878-1978 -- Travel -- France (Subject)
- Nicholson, Ivor. (Subject)
- Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932. (Subject)