Gabrielės Petkevičaitės-Bitės laiškai Jurgiui Šauliui

ENPennsylvania University library contains 165 letters, written in Lithuanian and in German by the writer and public figure Gabrielė Pet- kevičaitė-Bitė to the diplomat Jurgis Šaulys in 1906 - 1925. The most intense correspondence took place at the time when Šaulys, supported by the writer, was studying at the Bern University in Switzerland. There are about 40 wider letters, the others are short, informative. The letters are important for the history of the Lithuanian culture of the beginning of the 20th century: there is information about the movement of Lithuanian women at the beginning of the 20th century, about material support to students by the "Žiburėlis" (Beacon) Society, about problems in publishing newspapers the “Vilniaus žinios" (Vilnius news) and the "Lietuvos žinios" (Lithuanian news), about the life of the author of the letters, her activities as a journalist and as a teacher at Panevėžys Gymnasium, her social, pedagogical, aesthetic views. The letters also contain facts about such writers and cultural workers as Žemaitė, Mykolas Biržiška, Sofija Čiurlionytė-Kymantaitė, Julijonas Lindė-Dobilas, Kazys Puida, Juozas Albinas Herbačiauskas, Juozas Gurauskis, Adalbertas Staneika, Vladimiras Zubovas and others. There are published extracts from the most interesting letters.