Unknown correspondence by Maria Konopnicka in the archives of Manuscripts Department of University of Warsaw Library

Abstract

The subject of the article is Maria Konopnicka’s unpublished correspondence with five people, including nine small letters from the years 1888–1910, stored in the Manuscripts Department of University of Warsaw Library. Among the recipients are Felicjan Faleński, Wiktor Gomulicki and Wiktor Hahn. The letters concern e.g. Maria Konopnicka’s participation in Polish scientific and cultural life in the second half of the 19^th century and the beginning of the 20^th century. Scientifically researched and placed in a broad biographical and historical context, these texts can be an important source for research on the life of Maria Konopnicka and Polish culture at the turn of the 19^th and 20^th century.