The correspondence of Lucien Tesnière as preserved in the manuscript collection of Slovene national and University Library in Ljubljana

Abstract

L. Tesnière's three year's stay in Ljubljana (1921-1924) resulted in his personal contacts with a selected group of eminent Slovene scientists and creative writers. Some of them later established an interesting correspondence with him. So far 17 Tesnière's letters from the period 1921-1938 have been identified in the Manuscript collection of NUK. They are addressed to Ivan Prijatelj (3, 1921-1923), Oton Župančič (2, 1923- 1928), Anton Debeljak (2, 1923-1938) and Joža Glonar (10, 1924-1934). It is reasonable to expect that some more of his letters will come into our evidence when the literary archives of our philologists and men of letters who were active in the period 1920-1954 will be thoroughly inspected. Nevertheless, T.'s correspondence as preserved in our library even in its present modest extent represents important and interesting material for further research work in his life and scientific activity.