Trzy listy Jana Czeczota z lat 1844–1845 do Adolfa Kobylińskiego z Cieszewli. Kręgi poszukiwań archiwalnych i materiały dotyczące sylwetek korespondentów z Nowogródczyzny (część druga)
Three letters of Jan Czeczot written in the 1844–1845 period to Adolf Kobyliński of Cieszewla: An outline of archive research and materials referring to his correspondents from the Nowogród region (part two)

Summary/Abstract: This paper offers a presentation of three hitherto unknown letters, written in the 1844–1845 period by Jan Czeczot (1796–1847): Philomath, poet, researcher of folklore and former exile, addressed to his distant relative Adolf Kobyliński (1816–1894): patriotic landowner and collector of historical souvenirs living in Cieszewla (Nowogród county, Minsk province).The shortage of epistolographic sources and comprehensive research on this particular episode of Czeczot’s biography necessitated this edition of the let-ters to be preceded by two sizable introductory chapters. Part one, published in the previous volume of Prace Literackie, establishes the rules and scope of a future archive research that would supplement the collection of Czeczot’s letters writ­ten after his return from exile to his native Nowogród region, which is currently scarce. Part two collects and summarizes data about Czeczot’s correspondents from his home province that were published in print at an earlier date.Taking into account the shortage of printed sources and existing literary-histor­ical research, this part of the article can be used for contextual reference for future considerations on the figures discussed within and the literary, histor­ical and cultural geography of the period. At a time when the epistolographic base will be sufficiently broadened, the presented article could be of some use for further research on Jan Czeczot’s life and literary work and help shed light on the regrettably obscure world of the Nowogród noble circle and the prom­inent figures that populated it.

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