Gorska Halina, album - entry of Gen. Dowbor-Muśnicki dated 5 I 1919

The album of Halina Wroczynska (1902-1988), who took her husband's surname when she married Jerzy Lukasz Gorski.

The first entry is a two-page dedication signed "J. Dowbor Muśnicki, Warsaw in 5 / I 19.".

In the stammbuch, there are only a few dozen entries, a few pages removed, 2 loose cards (one with 6 autographs pasted on it, perhaps from the removed pages, or from other sources), quite a few pages unsigned. Among the surviving cards and entries are:
- a poem dated Jan. 13, 1919, inscribed by Zofia Gąsiorowska (this may refer to Zofia Szmydtowa, 1893-1977, historian, literary theorist, UW professor, editor-in-chief of the "Literary Yearbook", who, after graduating from the Jagiellonian University. and receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy in 1917, may have taught Halina while she was still attending the Cecylia Plater-Zyberkówna Philological Gymnasium in Warsaw in 1919;
- a short entry with an illegible monogram from 1919;
- a short entry with an illegible signature dated April 30, 1920;
- at the end a full-page entry dated 15 II 1919 (illegible signature J. Linczowskij ?);
- loose page - from 10 VI 1921 illegible signature of nice entry : You can only be compared to crystal: - so nothing in you of human falsity and malice. Remain with ...(?) so transparent and like an anthalie eager to understand another's bad moment or sorrow;
- loose sheet with a composition of cut autographs, among them one dated 19/26 I 16.

Condition: binding soiled with spots, with the stamp of the Chlebowski and Michałowski P.F. "Dawn" label.

General Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki (1867-1937) - Lieutenant General of the Army of the Russian Empire, Lieutenant General of the Polish Army, in 1917-18 Commander of the First Polish Corps in Russia, in 1918-1919 Commander-in-Chief of the Polish Armed Forces in the former Prussian partition. On the day following his entry in this stamper, on January 6, 1919, he received a summons from the Supreme National Council to take command of the Greater Poland Uprising.
A rare dedication from Gen. Dowbor-Muśnicki, from a very interesting period, the struggle for Poland's independence and borders.

Halina Górska (née Wroczynska) was the daughter of General Eng. Jan Wroczynski, Dowbor.(https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Wroczyński)