„Korespondencje konstantynopolitańskie” Józefa Ignacego Kraszewskiego

The manuscript collections of the Jagiellonian Library contain a part of correspondence between the renowned Polish novelist and publisher Józef Ignacy Kraszewski and Stanisław Chlebowski, a Polish painter living in Turkey. It includes 25 letters from Chlebowski to Kraszewski from 1852–1879 (call numbers: rkps 6462, 6491, 8917) and 13 letters from Kraszewski to Chlebowski from 1863–1879 (call number: 11672). One of the topics addressed in the letters is Chlebowski’s agency in finding an informer who would send to Paris confidential reports – “correspondances” in French – on current political and military events in Turkey. Chlebowski actually found such an informer – [Victor] Marie de Launaya, whose original letter is also in the Jagiellonian Library (call number: rkps 6491).