Register of the Jan Fryling Papers, 1939-1977

Processed by Hoover Institution staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Brooke Dykman Dockter

Hoover Institution Archives

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Register of the Jan Fryling Papers, 1939-1977

Hoover Institution Archives

Stanford University

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Phone: (650) 723-3563
Fax: (650) 725-3445
Email: archives@hoover.stanford.edu

Processed by:: Hoover Institution staff
Encoded by:: Brooke Dykman Dockter

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.

Administrative Information

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.

United States.

Diplomats--Poland.

Container List

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

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