Jan Fryling Papers, 1939-1977

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Descriptive Summary Title: Jan Fryling Papers, Date (inclusive): 1939-1977 Collection number: 77070 Creator: Fryling, Jan Collection Size: 6 manuscript boxes(2.5 linear feet) Repository: Hoover Institution Archives Stanford, California 94305-6010 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. Language: Mainly in Polish. Access Collection open for research. Publication Rights For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Jan Fryling Papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution Archives. Access Points Poles--United States. World War, 1939-1945. World War, 1939-1945--Poland. China. China--Foreign relations--Poland. India. India--Foreign relations--Poland. Poland. Poland--Foreign relations--China. Poland--Foreign relations--India. Poland--Politics and government--1918-1945.

Box 1 POLISH EMBASSY IN CHUNGKING, 1944-1945 Decoded telegrams from London, from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Exile, addressed to Ambassador Poninski, 1944 February-November Correspondence and reports from Chungking, 1944-1945 Box 2 CORRESPONDENCE, 1950-1973 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 General correspondence, New York, 1961-1973 Box 3-4 WRITINGS, 1956-1965 Jan Fryling's writings for Radio Free Europe; literary programs, weekly book reviews, reviews of plays Writings for the émigré press in London; background material, notes, working copies, miscellany Box 5-6 DIARIES, 1944-1973 (1944-1947, 1955-1956, 1958, 1963, 1965-1966, 1968-1969, 1972-1973). 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