«This Morning I’ve Received Your Dear Letter and I Am Writing Back This Evening Already»: The Correspondence of Felicja Trapszo-Krywultówna to Leonia Jabłonkówna, 1930–1936

Grażyna Chmielewska

Abstract

The letters written by Felicja Trapszo-Krywultówna to Leonia Jabłonkówna published here come from the archive ‘The correspondence and documents of artistic work of Leonia Jabłonkówna’ which is part of the Special Collections of the Art Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Felicja Krywultówna, born in 1905, was an actress coming from the well known actor family of Trapszo. She performed in Wilno, Grodno, Łódź, and Kraków. She died of tuberculosis in 1937. Leonia Jabłonkówna, born in 1905, studied art history and Polish philology at the University of Warsaw; she wrote articles about art for Bluszcz and a column about film for Wiadomości Literackie; in the 1930s she studied at the Directing Art Department of the PIST (State Institute of Theatre Art) in Warsaw. The letters published here date from 1930–1936; they bring biographical information about the two correspondents, news about theatres in Grodno, Kraków, and Częstochowa, about theatre management and companies, about the repertories. They paint a picture of the theatrical community of the 1930s.