Stepan Salyk completed his studies at the Ukrainian Teachers’ Seminary in Lviv in 1921. Upon immigrating to the United States, he settled in New York City where he worked as a machinist and taught at the local Ukrainian school. With the exception of one folder of letters from the Paraguayan civic leader Omelian Paduchak about his work with the Ukrainian Relief Committee for War Victims of Asunción, the papers consist almost exclusively of correspondence from the pedagogue and writer Mykhailo Lomatskyi. Salyk began to correspond with Lomatskyi after reading his book Ukraïnske vchytelstvo na Hutsulshchyni (1958). Lomatskyi’s letters have to do not only with personal matters and his work on Hutsuls, but reflect general émigré concerns. Between 1956 and 1968, Lomatskyi published thirteen books of ethnographic sketches and Romantic-historical prose about the inhabitants of the Hutsul region. The Salyk papers include several typewritten manuscripts by Lomatskyi, including one entitled "Homin hutsul's'koi davnyny" that is dedicated to Stepan Salyk.
Scope: 1947-1971
Size: 5 linear in., 1 box
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