Solski Waclaw Papers, 1941-1980

Waclaw Solski (Waclaw Jan Panski) was a socialist politician, journalist and writer. He was born in 1897 in Lodz, Poland. In 1915 he lived in exile. In Russia he was a member of the Bolshevik party and a communist journalist. In 1925 he left Russia and escaped to the West. In 1945 he arrived in New York, where he died in 1990.

Arrangement in Series: Correspondence 1941-1977, Litterary Analyses 1961-1962, Publications 1944-1980.

The collection contains private and official correspondence of Waclaw Solski with publishers and lawyers. There is correspondence on Solski's copyrights of his books, financial and immigration issues. There are also materials from university courses, texts of Solski articles, manuscripts of his dramas: "San Francisco" and "Wielka Gra", private memoirs, novels: "Loneliness", " The Seventh Night", "Przygody Jozefa Szwejka, sprzedawcy psow oraz Gustawa Roppa, oszusta" and manuscripts of short stories in series: "Dziwne wypadki", "Psy wsrod ludzi" and "They Discovered a Different America". There are also articles on social issues by Ernst Becker and Theodore Peterson.

Acquisition Note: Gift ca. 1980.  
Language: English, Russian, German, French, Polish.  
Dimensions: 4 storage boxes, 23 folders, 0.80 ft. = 0.24m
Local system # 028
Finding Aids: Collection inventory, database description, folder level control. 

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