Register of the Jan Fryling papers

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Title: Jan Fryling papers
Date (inclusive): 1939-1977
Collection Number: 77070
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: Mainly in Polish
Physical Description: 7 manuscript boxes (2.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Diaries, speeches and writings, notes, clippings, correspondence, and photographs relating to political events in Poland, Polish foreign relations with China and India, Poland's role in World War II, and activities of Poles in the United States.
Creator: Fryling, Jan
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1977.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Jan Fryling Papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Poland -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945
Diplomats -- Poland
Polish people -- United States
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland
China -- Foreign relations -- Poland
Poland -- Foreign relations -- China
India -- Foreign relations -- Poland
Poland -- Foreign relations -- India

 

POLISH EMBASSY IN CHUNGKING 1944-1945

box 1

Decoded telegrams from London, from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Exile, addressed to Ambassador Poninski 1944 February-November

box 1

Correspondence and reports from Chungking 1944-1945

 

CORRESPONDENCE 1950-1973

box 2

Correspondence and reports of Jan Fryling, unofficial representative of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Exile, in India and West Bengal; Calcutta-Darjeeling 1950-1955

box 2

General correspondence, New York 1961-1973

 

WRITINGS 1956-1965

box 3

Jan Fryling's writings for Radio Free Europe; literary programs, weekly book reviews, reviews of plays

box 4

Writings for the émigré press in London; background material, notes, working copies, miscellany

 

DIARIES 1944-1973

Scope and Contents

Diaries cover Jan Fryling's years in Nationalist China, as councilor of the Polish Embassy in Chungking (1944-1945); later as unofficial representative of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Exile, in India and West Bengal, and later, his years in New York; as executive director of the Jozef Pilsudski Institute in New York; writer and contributor to the Polish émigré press in London and Radio Free Europe.
box 5

1944-1958

box 6

1963-1973

box 7

1958-1965