Miłość, modlitwa, mazurki w sztuce pisania listów Stanisława Grabowskiego z Gutanowa

Abstract

Stanisław Grabowski’s love letters addressed to Ludwika Ostrowska and her family are in the Potocki and Ostrowski Archives of Maluszyn, stored as part of the State Archives in Łódź. Letters are reflexes of unfulfilled feeling, an expression of personal history that is a fragment of everyday life in a far-reaching realities. The epistolary records outlined by Stanisław Grabowski’s hand thus become a story about ordinary matters, trivial experiences, and on the other hand, a tale of extraordinary love, for it is a loyal and undying one, and at the same time unhappy, unfulfilled. Their content is not characterized by an intricate form or exceptional content. On the contrary, these letters are very modest, i.e. typical, intimate, addressed to specific addresses / addressees. Stanisław Grabowski’s visits to the Maluszyn palace did not go well, and his efforts, or rather hopes, came to nothing. It was likewise in the case of the letters that were never read by Ludwika Ostrowska.