Japonica w archiwaliach po Bronisławie Piłsudskim w Bibliotece Naukowej PAU i PAN w Krakowie (11). Korespondencja w sprawie posady nauczyciela dla Aleksandra Aleksiejewskiego

The eleventh installment of the series introducing Japanese documents preserved with Bronisław Piłsudski’s archives in the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow introduces manuscript photocopies, transcripts, and translation into Polish of two pieces of correspondence from Tokyo addressed to Bronisław Piłsudski in Nagasaki: (1) a post card in German (handwriting today hardly legible even for a majority of native speakers) sent by Tokijirō Katō, a physician and socialist politician, and (2) a letter in English sent by Ms. Kiyo(ko) Endō, a feminist associated with the “New Woman” (atarashii onna) movement and the feminist magazine Seitō ‘Bluestockings’ – both regarding help in finding a Russian-language teaching position in the Tokyo region for Aleksandr Alekseyevskiy (1876–1958), a secondary-school teacher of logic, philosophy, psychology, as well as (probably?) Russian literature, journalist, and a local (Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast’-turned “Republic”, Irkutsk) politician, arrested by Bolsheviks for “counterrevolutionary activities”, later an exile in Japan (for a short period – evidently the position seeking efforts failed), and France (1920–1958, killed in a Paris street accident). The material includes also some not readily available biographical information and a brief note on one more letter, from a College in Yokohama, regarding the same matter, preserved in the Library.