„Korespondencje konstantynopolitańskie” Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego
„Constantinople correspondence” of Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

Summary/Abstract: The manuscript collections of the Jagiellonian Library contain a part of correspondence between the renowned Polish novelist and publisher Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Stanisław Chlebowski,a Polish painter living in Turkey. It includes 25 letters from Chlebowski to Kraszewski from 1852–1879 (call numbers: rkps 6462, 6491, 8917) and 13 letters from Kraszewski to Chlebowskifrom 1863–1879 (call number: 11672).One of the topics addressed in the letters is Chlebowski’s agency in finding an informer who would send to Paris confidential reports – “correspondances” in French – on current political andmilitary events in Turkey. Chlebowski actually found such an informer – [Victor] Marie de Launaya, whose original letter is also in the Jagiellonian Library (call number: rkps 6491).

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