161 - Jurgis Kazimirovich BALTRUCHAITIS (1873–1944)

Jurgis Kazimirovich BALTRUCHAITIS (1873–1944) A collection of notes, autograph letters, correspondence, and diplomatic documents from the time Jurgis Kazimirovich was sent to Paris in April 1939 as the Soviet ambassador to Lithuania, including: - Two handwritten notes dated May 22, 1939: “5/ The Western Pact—can only be conceived within the framework of collective organization 4 Franco-Soviet Pact negotiations: De. Letuinov corresponds exactly with British diplomatic circles. The idea of strengthening this instrument could meet with some resistance in England (...) 2) That Lithuania speaks sharply about Geneva: ** France should have been so simple as to grant the Poles a large amount of armaments * last fall without taking any adequate political precautions against a * by Col. Beck’s spies. (...) —A letter in English written in Bristol on October 5, 1939, by an anonymous author and addressed to Jurgis Kasimirovitch BALTRUCHAITIS: "Dear Mr. B, I received an invoice for 5:0:0 pounds from W.H. Smith & Son. Your request has been fulfilled. What a cataclysm since we last met. The whole world seems to have lost its balance. I expect you are glad that you were no longer in Moscow when the conflict between Russia and the Baltic states began. No human being could have wanted the collapse that occurred, and you could only have felt utterly helpless and useless. I confess that I feel completely at a loss even to speculate on what ** emerged from the chaos to bring us to where we are now…" -A handwritten letter dated July 31, 1926, from Stanislaw Razurliéwicz in French addressed to the Ambassador (Jurgis Kasimirovitch), in which he is asked to translate his poems into Polish for an anthology of Russian poets. “While awaiting your reply in Russian, please accept the assurance of my highest regard.” -A typewritten letter dated July 20, 1922, requesting that the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs return the belongings of Lithuanian citizen Chlepovitch, a diplomat in Moscow, which had been mistakenly taken by another diplomat on a business trip, A. Matchiokas. -A handwritten letter in French from a certain “F.A. Swaïkni (?)” to “My dear Minister,” dated July 27, on British Foreign Office letterhead, extending an invitation to lunch or a glass of sherry. MC Provenance -Jurgis Kasimirovitch Baltruchaïtis (1873–1944), Lithuanian diplomat and poet. -Their son, Jurgis Jurgissovitch Baltruchaïtis (1903–1988), historian. -His wife, Hélène Baltruchaïtis (1908–2004), née Castel-Focillon, daughter of Henri Focillon (1881–1943). -Then through descendants.