Sruoga’s letters to various individuals provide valuable information on various periods of the writer’s life: before the war (activities at the realgymnasium in Panevėžys), the First World War (after his studies in Russia), during the interwar period (journalistic work in Kaunas and later in Klaipėda, studies at the University of Munich, teaching at the University of Lithuania), during the second World War (occupational Soviet and Nazi regimes, imprisonment in Stutthof concentration camp, separation from the family, the camp in Torun), and post-war years (life in Soviet-reoccupied Vilnius and Kaunas).
In terms of the range of subjects, the corpus of letters is the most comprehensive and at the same time the most problematic as regards the restoration of the whole corpus (single letters are stored at storage institutions in Lithuania, Russia, and the USA) if compared with other letters by Sruoga. Examining the corpus of Sruoga’s letters to various individuals and institutions suggests that it is the largest epistolary collection (more than 400 extant letters). Up to now, Sruoga’s letters to various people have not been collected and chronologically linked as a result, their corpus has been neither subjected to analysis nor published yet. In this article, (1) the corpus of the letters is discussed, (2) topics of the letters are described, (3) the links between sruoga’s letters and the addressees’ recollections about him are highlighted providing newly-found details and yet unknown or insufficiently actualised facts about the writer’s personality, his work, and his life, (4) the fragments of Sruoga’s works of fiction that are relevant from the point of view of genesis and reception are accentuated, and (5) textological issues are pointed out.
The article presents a corpus of classic formal letters written by the Lithuanian writer Balys Sruoga to various individuals between 19. Lietuvių katalikų mokslo akademijos metraštis.
Balio Sruogos laiškai įvairiems asmenims: "Sursum corda!"īalys Sruoga’s letters to various individuals: "Sursum corda!"
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