Scope and Contents note
Primarily personal letters and postcards. Boreysza had arranged the personal correspondence he received chronologically, and
this order has been retained as much as possible. Postcards have been put in one progression while letters, which often contain
clippings from Polish publications, are in another. When no date has been discernible on the item itself, it has been left
with the year in which it was found. Many of the correspondents are army and other Polish émigré acquaintances, as well as
personal friends from his student years.
The greatest amount of material is from a relative, Henryk Boreysza, who was living in Sopot on the outskirts of Gdansk. These
relatives are also represented prominently in the
Photographs series. During the peak Solidarity activity years, Henryk Boreysza frequently sent Boreysza packets of newspaper clippings.
When a dated note is included, the chronological filing is based on that, and the clippings included generally are dated within
a week of the personal note. When no note is included, the filing arrangement follows the publication month of the clippings
included in the packet. Postcards from this correspondent, for the Solidarity-intensive period, have generally been kept with
the letters/clippings. This portion results in what is essentially a diary-like eyewitness account to the events unfolding
in the Gdansk area in 1981 through selective press clippings.
Because the many postcards could not be interfiled with the regular correspondence, one needs to look within each time unit,
foldered by year, to be sure to identify the complete correspondence.
