IMBOLDUL CÂTORVA SCRISORI DE DRAGOSTE PENTRU RECONSTITUIREA BIOGRAFIEI LOCOTENENT-COLONELULUI ALEXANDRU D. PETCU, FOST OFIȚER DE MARINĂ (II)
THE IMPETUS OF A FEW LOVE LETTERS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE BIOGRAPHY OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL ALEXANDRU D. PETCU, FORMER NAVAL OFFICER (II)

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction, through a necessary summary, I want to remind you that this correspondence is the basis of the archival explorations undertaken for the characters, a fact exposed in the chapter presented and published in 2022 also here, by our generous hosts.Also then I noticed that from the correspondence that was still preserved, the first piece is an envelope dated May 24, 1929, without content, the last is the letter dated June 16, 1939, totaling 8 pieces from 1929, 35 from 1930, another 23 circulated in 1931 and one piece from 1936 and 1939 respectively.Saved from being wasted, the value of the 72 documents (44 holographic letters placed in envelopes and another 28 correspondence envelopes, left without content) increased exponentially when the personal file of the naval officer Alexandru Petcu, the addressee of the letters, was identified in the archive. document on account of which his biography was reconstructed and presented in the first chapter.In the present article, the author reveals the fact that beyond the pathos of the words born from the depths of love, the young lady's letters remain a real fresco of the daily life experienced by middle-class Bucharesters in the first decade of Greater Romania.

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