Contacts of the Galician Archivists with the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw in the late 19th and early 20th century in Teodor Wierzbowski’s Correspondence

More than half of historians who used the holdings of the Central Archives of Historical Records, headed in the years 1897–1919 by Professor Teodor Wierzbowski, came from Galicia. Among them archivists constituted not a small group, only to mention Oswald Balzer, Eugeniusz Barwiński, Adam Chmiel, Przemysław Dąbkowski, Stanisław Krzyżanowski, Stanisław Kutrzeba. Their correspondence, which is stored in the manuscript collections of the Scientific Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow city, shows how much they valued the relations with the Central Archives and its director. Books on history and the fundamental source editions, as well as historical and legal arguments in the Polish–Hungarian border dispute about the region of Morskie Oko in the Tatra Mountains were the results of research conducted in Warsaw. Wierzbowski asked scholars, who used the holdings of The Central Archives of Historical Records, not to disclose the origin of quoted records, in order not to attract attention of Russian authorities to the fact how important and valuable to the Polish historical science was holdings of that archive. Contacts of Galician scholars, including archivists from the cities of Cracow and Lvov, maintained with the Central Archives show a sense of unity of the Polish science across the borders, in spite of partitions. These contacts contributed to the integration of Polish historians, and in independent Poland were basis for creation one common archival service