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Gardner Collection

Archive Collection description: GAN

Gardner Collection (1919-1933)

Monica Gardner was an English writer on Poland and Polish literature. Her main focus was on romantic poetry but she also wrote two historical biographies. In addition to writing books and articles (she was a longtime contributor to "The Slavonic Review"), Monica Gardner was a translator and editor. She was killed in an air raid in London in 1941.
Ref: "Slavonic and East European Review" vol 23, no 62, 1945, pp 150-152

Contents

Postcards showing views of Poland or representations of Polish folk art, mostly commercially produced. The majority of the cards were sent to Monica Gardner from Poland and contain a message, other are blank.

1919-1933

3 albums and 1 envelope

Condition: some of the postcards have been mutilated by the removal of their postage stamps

(Language) English & Polish

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