On Sunday 16 June 2024, our colleagues Renáta Cebe and Kateřina Zajíčková accepted a research invitation to Buštěhrad, initiated by the curator of the Buštěhrad Ota Pavel Museum, Ivona Kasalická. She approached our department some time ago with an offer to participate in the author’s bibliography, which all three colleagues started to work on together at the end of 2023.
Although the visit was in a convivial, friendly spirit, it was far from being just a leisure activity. For example, the colleagues used the Consul typewriter on display to produce sample texts to be compared with other (mainly samizdat) materials from the writer’s estate, so that their authorship could be verified.
During the visit, however, there was also a pleasant personal surprise – through many coincidences, which you can read about in Ivona Kasalická’s article on page 33 of the Buštěhrad bulletin, our colleagues became the 19,999th and 20,000th visitors to the museum.
We would like to thank Ivona Kasalická and the museum staff for their warm welcome and we are looking forward to the further course of the planned multi-year cooperation, which we will inform you about in more detail in its later stages.
