May 1934 Cruise around Spain. Vienna. Gneixendorf. Tirol
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1934-05
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University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press
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The fourth journal is labeled "May 1934. Cruise around Spain. Vienna. Gneixendorf. Tirol." It begins with a cruise on the S.S. Montrose that stopped in the Spanish cities of Vigo, Ceuta, Palma, and Cadiz. Ruck recounts her excursions at these stops as well as the social life on board the Montrose. Her experiences on this cruise would quickly find their way into her novel Sunshine Stealer: The Story of a Cruise (1935), notes for which occur later in this journal. In this journal, Ruck also begins to display an interest in the mystical. In both this and the next two journals, she records her dreams and visits to fortune tellers and addresses her desires and ambitions to an unnamed "Power." After the cruise, she goes to Wales, then back to Austria, which she again alternates between Vienna and Gneixendorf, where, propelled by financial worries, she concentrates on her writing.
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MSS 0362, Berta Ruck travel journals, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.