KRASIŃSKI Adam Stanisław, Letter to a poetess.

Letter to the poet.

Krasinski Adam Stanisław, Bishop of Vilnius, letter to the writer Deotyma (Jadwiga Łuszczewska),Cracow 25 XI 1887, k.2, Dimensions 20.5 x 13 cm.
Polish language, handwritten autograph of the bishop. A worshipful letter from the former Bishop of Vilna, A.S. Krasinski (1810-1891), who was exiled during the January Uprising to Viatka for almost 20 years. Since he was forbidden to stay in Vilnius he settled in Krakow in a Piarist monastery where he wrote scientific papers on Polish philology. The addressee of the letter is Deotyma (Jadwiga Łuszczewska [1834-1908]), famous in her era, a poet and bard who improvised patriotic poems. Bishop also sends greetings to writer Adam Plough. Folding marks, good condition.9131/9