Szymborska W. - Patchwork and handwritten letter dated 11 November 1999.

[SZYMBORSKA Wisława, pastedown]. Handwritten "pastedown" by Wislawa Szymborska with a letter on the back addressed to Danuta Herbert-Ulam in Paris, dated. 11 XI 1999.
Sheet of stiff gray paper form. 14.7x10.3 cm. Pericaud gramophone, a woman's head in a hat protrudes from the tube. Szymborska mentions a forthcoming issue of "Zeszyty Literackie" devoted to Herbert, offers to send "some books" from the country, asks for advice on what to send. Foreign envelope, yellowed, with address inscribed in Szymborska's hand, her return address at 18 Stycznia Street and date stamped 1975. Good condition.
W. Szymborska (1923-2012) - poet, essayist, critic, translator, columnist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1996, founder of the Association of Polish Writers in 1989.