Listy Józefa Wittlina do Czesława Miłosza
Józef Wittlin’s Letters to Czesław Miłosz

Summary/Abstract: Józef Wittlin and Czesław Miłosz’s correspondence evidences the life emigrants. The letters are a complement to Miłosz’s letters to Wittlin published earlier. Most intensive contacts of the writers is observed in the 1940s and 1950s, when Miłosz served for Polish diplomacy in the USA. It was the time when they most frequently exchanged letters and cooperated in the publication of the book “Adam Mickiewicz. Poet of Poland. A Symposium” (New York 1951). There is no output of their correspondence dated 1960s, though we cannot exclude their telephone contact at that time. Both Miłosz and Wittlin respected each other’s creativity, yet they did not feel much reciprocal affinity. They differed as regards political views and life situation. Wittlin in his letters to Miłosz was fairly official and undemonstrative, which may be well visible in comparison to his letters to Wierzyński, Haupt, Giedroyc, and even Kridl. Even so, their correspondence is important evidence of contact and cooperation of the writers–vital not only for Polish literature.

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