Lednicki Waclaw Papers, (1936-) 1940-1967

Waclaw Lednicki (1891-1967) was a Slavic Studies specialist. During World War II he emigrated to the USA. He was one of the founders of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America.

Arrangement in Series: Personal Papers and Correspondence; Studies on Literature, Terry Lednicki Personal Papers.

The collection contains manuscripts of published books and essays, often in several versions by Lednicki; notes from lectures on Russian and Polish literature and culture; materials concerning his political activities; and course outlines in Slavic Studies from his Harvard and Berkeley periods. Official correspondence with American scholarly institutions, foundations, societies, and universities; letters from publishers and editors of scholarly journals; the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and the Kosciuszko Foundation, and correspondence with members of the Polish Government-in-Exile and Polish political figures including Marian Kukiel, Stanislaw Kot, Henryk Strassburger, Stefan Ropp, Stanislaw Stronski, Wladyslaw Günter, and President August Zaleski. Correspondence with Polish writers including Julian Tuwim, Jozef Wittlin, Jan Lechon, Kazimierz Wierzynski, and Maria Dabrowska; Polish scholars including Stanislaw Pigon, Julian Krzyzanowski, Konrad Gorski, Oscar Halecki, and Wiktor Weintraub; American and European scholars including Samuel H.Cross, George Rapall Noyes, Frank M. Schoell, Claude Backvis, Ettore Lo Gatto, Roman Jacobson, Mikhail Karpovich, and Gleb Struve.

Acquisition Note: Gift of Jan Lednicki (son of Waclaw Lednicki) ca 1968. 
Language: Polish, English, Russian, French. 
Dimensions: storage boxes, 342 folders, 19.5 ft. = 5.80 m
Local system # 007
Finding Aids: Collection inventory, database description, folder level control. 

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