[MALEWSKA Hanna]. Two letters by Hanna Malewska (typed and handwritten) to Zdzislaw Najder,...

[MALEWSKA Hanna]. Two letters from Hanna Malewska (typescript and handwritten) to Zdzislaw Najder, dated. Dec. 4, 1966 and May 21, 1967.
One-page letters, typescript form. A4, handwritten form. A5. In the first letter, the writer thanks you for your favorable assessment of her "Family Apocrypha," a story about the complicated fate of her family over a century and a half. The book had positive reviews, "only a considerable number of relatives," the author writes, "among them some of whom I knew nothing about, took offense and some called me names. In the final part of the letter she asks for English translations of two recently published books by Konrad Lorenz. The second letter thanks Lorenz for the books he sent and asks him to send a text to the monthly magazine "Znak" (suggesting an excerpt from a book being prepared for Oxford Press). Folding of the top edge of one letter, otherwise good condition.
H. Malewska (1911-1983) - writer, author of historical novels, editor-in-chief of "Znak" monthly from 1960-1973, columnist of "Tygodnik Powszechny". Soldier of the Home Army, participant in the Warsaw Uprising, signatory of protest letters during the communist era.