Date range
1941-1980
Biography / History
Waclaw Solski (Waclaw Jan Panski) was a socialist politician, journalist and writer. He was born in 1897 in Lodz, Poland. In 1915 he lived in exile. In Russia he was a member of the Bolshevik party and a communist journalist. In 1925 he left Russia and escaped to the West. In 1945 he arrived in New York, where he died in 1990. Acquisition Note: Gift ca. 1980.
Abstract
The collection contains private and official correspondence of Waclaw Solski with publishers and lawyers. There is correspondence on Solski’s copyrights of his books, financial and immigration issues. There are also materials from university courses, texts of Solski articles, manuscripts of his dramas: “San Francisco” and “Wielka Gra”, private memoirs, novels: “Loneliness”, ” The Seventh Night”, “Przygody Jozefa Szwejka, sprzedawcy psow oraz Gustawa Roppa, oszusta” and manuscripts of short stories in series: “Dziwne wypadki”, “Psy wsrod ludzi” and “They Discovered a Different America”. There are also articles on social issues by Ernst Becker and Theodore Peterson. Arrangement in Series: Correspondence 1941-1977, Litterary Analyses 1961-1962, Publications 1944-1980.
Language
English, Russian, German, French, Polish.
| No. | Title | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Correspondence | ||
| 1 | Correspondence with lawyers - case of Waclaw Solski's copyrights. | 1946-1968 |
| 2 | Correspondence with private persons and universities in the USA | 1943-1977 |
| 3 | Private papers, c.v., immigration and financial issues | 1941-1952 |
| Critical Works - Publications | ||
| 4 | Manusript: "A Study of Soviet Literature in the Twenties" by Waclaw Solski | 1976-1977 |
| 5 | Manusript: "Outline for a Study on the Doctrine of Socialist Realism as Reflected in Soviet Literature after 1934" by Waclaw Solski. | 1962-1962 |
| 6 | Programs of mid-semester test on translations. Registers of students | 1961-1962 |
| Publications: Articles | ||
| 7 | Manuscripts of a series of articles: "Stolen Words" by Waclaw Solski. | 1954-1954 |
| Publications: Drama | ||
| 8 | Manuscript: "San Francisco" by Waclaw Solski. Text in English. | |
| 9 | Manuscript: "Wielka Gra" by Waclaw Solski | |
| Publications: Memoirs | ||
| 10 | Manuscript: "Wspomnienia osobiste" by Waclaw Solski | 1971-1971 |
| 11 | Manuscript: "My Meetings and Relations With the Mensheviks" by Waclaw Solski. Text in Russian. | 1960-1960 |
| Publications: Novels | ||
| 12 | Manuscript: "Loneliness" by Waclaw Solski. | |
| 13 | Manuscript: "Powiesc bez tytulu" by Waclaw Solski. | |
| 14 | Manuscript: "Przygody Józefa Szwejka, sprzedawcy psów, oraz Gustawa Roppa, oszusta" by Waclaw Solski | 1980-1980 |
| 15 | Manuscript: "Przygody Józefa Szwejka, sprzedawcy psów, oraz Gustawa Roppa, oszusta" by Waclaw Solski. Text in German. | |
| 16 | Manuscript: "The Seventh Night" by Waclaw Solski | |
| 17 | Manuscript: "Wladza" by Waclaw Solski. | |
| 18 | Manusript: "Przygody Jakuba Dombka, biuralisty i Gustawa Bonczy, oszusta w kraju i zagranica" by Waclaw Solski | 1970-1971 |
| Publications: Poems | ||
| 19 | Manusripts of poems. Poems published in London in newspaper WIADOMOSCI. Press clippings and typescripts. | 1958-1978 |
| Publications: Short Stories | ||
| 20 | Manuscripts: "Dziwne wypadki" by Waclaw Solski. | 1950-1975 |
| 21 | Manuscripts: "Psy wsród Ludzi" by Waclaw Solski. | |
| 22 | Manuscripts: "Redlington" and "They Discovered a Different America" by Waclaw Solski. | 1944-1958 |
| 23 | Articles by Ernst Becker and Theodore Peterson on sociology. A drama: "Spotkanie w parku" by Edward Albee. |