[JANTA Aleksander]. Handwritten letter from Aleksander Janta-Połczynski to Zdzislaw Najder, dat....

[JANTA Aleksander]. Handwritten letter from Aleksander Janta-Polczynski to Zdzislaw Najder, dated. April 23, 1968.
One-page letter on letterhead by Aleksander Janta, in near A4 format. The author writes about the troubles of the poet Stanislaw Sita related to the export from the USA of a bmw car bought there ("they chopped him such a duty that he had to put the car away and seal it"). The bulk of the letter was devoted by Janta to archival items related to Paderewski that sometimes appear at auctions. "I was told [...] by Kirschenbaum the owner of the Carnegie Bookshop antique store in NY that years ago he had a whole bundle of Conrad's Polish letters, he doesn't remember the details, but doesn't rule out that they were sold at auction in the late [1920s] or 30s." He writes that after five years he received a Polish visa and "takes advantage" of it. - flies to Warsaw. He then plans to "wander around Europe in search of books." Transverse fold marks, good condition.
Janta-Polczynski A. (1908-1974) - writer, translator, bibliophile, antiquarian. Before the war, he collaborated, among others, with "Wiadomosci Literackie" (reports, interviews), after the war he remained in exile, in Germany, France and England, to settle permanently in New York. He wrote in the Parisian "Kultura", the London "Wiadomosci", and cooperated with the Kosciuszko Foundation and the Paderewski Foundation. Since 1960, together with P. Hertz, he ran an antiquarian bookstore.