Egy irodalmi mű hazakerülése és kiadása köré szövődött kapcsolatháló felfedett és felfedendő pontjai
Points Revealed and Yet to be Revealed in the Network Woven around the Homecoming of a Manuscript

Summary/Abstract: There are two theories of the way the manuscript of Kelemen Mikes’s Letters from Turkey arrived home from Tekirdag (Rodostó). According to the fi rst one, the manuscript was brought home as a present from a Bosnian pasha by a man named Mészáros from Szolnok and handed to the editors of the 18th century periodical Hadi és Más Nevezetes Történetek in Vienna: Demeter Görög and Sámuel Kerekes. According to the second theory they were brought to Hungary by baron François de Tott, a French military offi cer of Hungarian origin, son of András Tóth, a former kuruc freedom fighter, comrade to Kelemen Mikes and the other Hungarian emigrants. The question being still unanswered represents one of the most intriguing ones in the history of Hungarian literature, as key-pieces of information were carefully hidden in the time to avoid the attention of authority. This study tries out one of the methods generally used by social network analysis. The method is that of the sociogram (the graphic representation of social links showing the structure of interpersonal relations in group situations.) With the help of this type of representation the study tries to shed light on more possible interpersonal connections of the time that could help today’s researchers fi nd the route on which the manuscript in question arrived home. The study deals with relationships that might have or undoubtedly played a part in the process of sending the text home and preparing it to be published, while it draws attention to literary, historical or (seemingly) less important figures who haven’t been examined yet in this respect. All these are done based on old and new studies, yet most importantly with the help of the new discoveries of Ferenc Tóth, contemporary historian and researcher in the fi eld of 18th century Hungarian emigration in France and Turkey.

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