[NAJDER Zdzisław]. Typescript copy of a letter from Zdzislaw Najder to Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, unsigned,...

[NAJDER Zdzisław]. Typescript copy of a letter from Zdzislaw Najder to Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, unsigned, dated. December 18, 1976 in Warsaw.
One-page letter form. A4, on thin punched paper. The letter concerns violations of the law by the authorities during the events of June 1976. In the first words Najder explains the reason for writing the letter: "I address you as an MP - although you are not 'my' MP. But as a matter of fact, I did not have the opportunity to elect any MP, and you are an MP because of your position in Polish culture. And in this sense I consider you and as my representative." The misdeeds committed by the apparatus of power during the incidents in Ursus, Radom and Pruszkow should, according to the letter's author, be made public. In poignant words, he writes about the role of literature and writers in difficult moments for the country. He informs Iwaszkiewicz about the formation of the Workers' Defense Committee and its activities. He concludes the letter with a call to "address the issue of atrocities, persecution and violations of the rule of law." The letter's author writes: "I want [...] to appeal to you, as the most outstanding of living Polish writers, as the heir of those values and those duties from which we have grown to honor, to throw your enormous and unused authority on the scales at a critical moment for the fate of our society." Letter without signature, sender's name and address in header. One handwritten correction of the text. Folding of the edges of the sheet, nevertheless good condition.
Z. Najder (1930-2021) - literary historian, professor of humanities, lecturer at Columbia University and Yale University, among others, oppositionist during the People's Republic of Poland, founder of the Polish Independence Alliance, 1982-1987 director of the Polish Broadcasting Station of Radio Free Europe. Husband of translator Halina Najder (Wikipedia).