Korespondencja rodzinna Marii Dąbrowskiej w zbiorach Książnicy Pomorskiej
Family correspondence of Maria Dąbrowska in the collections of the Pomeranian Library

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the letters written in the years 1934–1965 by Maria Dąbrowska to her sister, Helena Hepke, and her niece, Danuta Hepke-Kelch, never analysed before and kept in the Pomeranian Library. The article describes the addressees and contains an analysis of the form and contents of the letters. Among the external features the following factors may be mentioned: the fact that part of the letters have not been found, the general description Archiwum Heleny Hepke-Kelch and the digitalised group of the documents that are the property of the Public Library in Choszczno and an integral part of the whole collection. In the chapter devoted to the contents there is a short characterisation of the features of the epistolographic forms used by Maria Dąbrowska and of the topics the writer took up in her letters. The article mentions the problem of self-creation and the question of social changes that took place in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s. The topics of the letters have been discussed using comparative methods, and the main material for the analysis has been, in addition to the correspondence, Dzienniki (Diaries) written by Maria Dąbrowska and published in 2009 without any censor’s changes.

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