The discovery of some hitherto unknown documents relating to Bolesław Leśmian’s family has made it possible to re-read his autobiographical poems as responses to circumstances and events from the poet’s real life. An analysis of his poems in the light of the information supplied by the newly-discovered source shows that they provide a thoroughly accurate record of events as they happened, especially deaths. Not only do the deaths of his mother, father and his siblings hurt him deeply and foreshadow the end of his own life, but also make him feel guilty for not being able to remember them properly: as his memory fails him, they are condemned to a ‘second death’.
Little is known about the genealogy and the biography of Eleonora Ziemięcka née Gagatkiewicz. Poland’s first female philosopher (1819–1869). This article, the fruit of extensive archival research, now supplies the missing data. It not only fi xes her birth date – hitherto unknown – but also gives us an insight into the circumstances and reasons of her being brought up away from her parents. It has also been possible to collect a good deal of information about her relations, especially the Gagatkiewicz family (she was the granddaughter of Walenty Gagatkiewicz, the most distinguished physician of late 18th century Warsaw), and the family connections and the profi le of her husband, the portrait painter Antoni Ziemięcki.
W artykule zaprezentowano okazjonalne teksty, publikowane w latach 1864–1879 na łamach dziennika „Czas”. Odsłaniają one specyfikę utrwalania codzienności Krakowa i okolic zarówno w perspektywie uroczystych celebracji, jak i społecznościowych marginaliów. Sporządzono wykaz tych tekstów, ustalono ich autorów, dokonano deszyfracji pseudonimów, wskazano konwencje i osobliwości genologiczne, a także podjęto próbę nakreślenia stosunku krakowian do kwestii niepodległościowych, romantyzmu i patriotyzmu oraz uznanych autorytetów.
pl
en
