Przed nowym wydaniem dzienników Żeromskiego – losy autografów
Before the New Edition of Stefan Żeromski’s Diaries: Stories of Manuscripts

Summary/Abstract: The article informs about the history of Stefan Żeromski’s diary’s manuscripts from the moment the diary started its development, namely from May 1882 until December 1992, when the last of the existing volumes reached the National Library. The history proves to be turbulent since out of at least 26 notes of the diary’s contents only 18 survived to the present. The author of the paper accessed many unknown to date library documents, thus he rectifies the numerous mistakes recorded in the scientific material and recollects that in his last will written by the end of his life Żeromski presented his diaries to Polish PEN Club as well as that the inheritress, Anna Żeromska and Monika Żeromska, did not comply with that will: they kept the manuscripts for themselves and regarded them as their private property. This issue became the basis for complications and dispute when in the year 1947 prof. Wacław Borowy started preparing the edition of “Dzienniki” (“Diaries”). In the final part the author considers when and in which circumstances as many as at least 8 volumes might have been lost or destroyed.

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