Brakujące kartki. Kłopoty z biografistyką emigracyjną na podstawie kilku kwerend, czyli niełatwe wzmagania ze scalaniem źródeł

Thepaper focuses on the difficulties underlying the research on some aspects of Polish history and literature abroad, due the high dispersion of thedocumentary materials, pointing out how unusual, perilous and accidental aresometimes their survival. In order to doso the author reconstructs the story behind three historical postcards sent from Poland to Italy last century, one connected with the presence of a Polish Army Campin Piedmont in 1919 addressed to the future Polish Honorary Consul in Turin AttilioBegey and the other two sent by a well known poet, Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna tohis daughter Maria Bersano Begey. Those postcards luckily did not get loosethanks to a Polish tourist, Wojciech Fudakiewicz who bought them from a bouquiniste.