[TARNAWSKI Wit]. Two manuscript letters by Wit Tarnawski to Zdzislaw Najder,...

[TARNAWSKI Wit]. Two manuscript letters from Wit Tarnawski to Zdzislaw Najder, dated. May 28 and June 17, 1971 in Monmouth and Worthing, UK.
First letter double-sided on folded correspondence sheet form. 31.5x15 cm. The author of the letter informs: "The case with the eyes is unfortunately lost in advance. It is a degeneration of the retina [...] which is rapidly progressing and for which so far medicine does not know a cure. I have already come to terms with it." He goes on to write about his translation of Conrad's "In the Eyes of the West" and asks for details of a portrait photograph of this writer. Second one-sided letter on an A5 sheet. Concerns the promised shipment of a piece of "In the Eyes of the West" to Najder, who is staying in London. Good condition.
W. Tarnawski (1894-1988) - prose writer, translator, literary critic, doctor by profession. Before the war, he and his father ran a well-known natural health center in Kosovo. Since 1947 he lived in England. "As a critic, he devoted most attention to the works of Joseph Conrad-Korzeniowski. In 1948 he founded the first Conrad Enthusiasts Club in England. He was a member of the Joseph Conrad Society and its honorary president since 1984. He also belonged to two American Conrad societies" (SPPnO).