Szymborska W. - A hand-drawn die-cut from 1994

[SZYMBORSKA Wisława]. Handwritten "pastedown" by Wislawa Szymborska on the back of a manuscript letter addressed from Cracow to Danuta Herbert-Ulam in Paris, dated December 16, 1994.
Sheet of stiff white paper form. 14x9.9 cm. On one side glued cut out from magazines a colorful male face wishing "Merry Christmas", next to it (also cut out) some fractious questions: What kind of animals are these?, Who is this?, What is this book talking about? and some others. On the back a short manuscript letter: "[...] How I would like to talk to you myself.... I don't know how to write long letters and conduct regular correspondence, unfortunately." A preserved envelope (from another letter?) hand-addressed by Szymborska, with a return address written in the same hand (82 18 Stycznia Street). The addressee of the correspondence is Danuta Herbert-Ulam (here without the "Ulam" segment), Zbigniew Herbert's cousin and wife of the prominent physicist Juliusz Ulam. Writing slightly fuzzy in the final words, nevertheless very good condition.
W. Szymborska (1923-2012) - poet, essayist, critic, translator, columnist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, founder of the Polish Writers' Association in 1989.