Letters from Feliks Wrotnowski to Eustachy Januszkiewicz written during the years 1859–1868

In his published letters, Wrotnowski raises the subject of emigrants’ everyday life. Publishing issues, anguish of urgent work and finances dominate the correspondence. The sender describes his experience in editing Żywot Adolfa and preparing another edition of Adam Mickiewicz’s Parisian lectures, as well as his attempts to write a geography course book for Szkoła Batignolska and to sell a matrix for printing so-called Chrzanowski’s map. Wrotnowski gives economic details of the refugees’ life, often discusses his health and misery, meticulously makes notes of meetings with his countrymen, quotes their conversations. Twenty-one letters from Feliks Wrotnowski to Eustachy Januszkiewicz written during the years 1859–1868 is part of archives donated from Popiel book collection in Czaple Wielkie near Miechów to Biblioteka Jagiellońska by the agency of Witold Zachorowski in 1948.