17 August 1965, Tuesday

Drogobych. Mirosław Krawczyszyn writes a letter to Jerzy Ficowski.

Mirosław Krawczyszyn, former maths teacher at King Władysław Jagiełło State Secondary School, sends Jerzy Ficowski a sheet of paper with what is – as he claims – a solution Schulz sketched himself to a construction task. A few days before, he accidentally found a double-folded piece of paper with the handnotes in one of his old school textbooks (Zbiór zadań matematycznych [A collection of mathematical problems] by Ignacy Kranz, Kraków 1920).

Krawczyszyn also recollects that in the local newspaper Радянське Слово (no 126 of 10 August 1965) appeared an article whose author, a local lawyer Leon Friess, appeals to the inhabitants of Drogobych to search for Schulz memorabilia. Krawczyszyn attaches a clipping of this newspaper to his letter. (jo)