The subject of this article is documentary editing of the correspondence of two young ancient history researchers – Tadeusz Smoleński (1884–1909), a historian and Egyptologist, and Stefan Waszyński (1872–1908), a historian and papyrologist, to Bolesław Ulanowski (1860–1919), the Secretary General of the Academy of Art and Sciences, who directed the scholarship programme of the Academy and who kept cordial relationship with the scholars. While studying archaeology and Egyptian philology in Cairo, Tadeusz Smoleński in the years 1905–1908 received from the Academy’s board a scholarship from Malwina Jankowska’s legacy in the amount of 600 Austrian Kronen per year. Stefan Waszyński, the private docent of the ancient history at the Jagellonian University, conducted research on the judiciary as well as leasing and renting in antiquity. In the years 1906–1908 was the scholar of the Wiktor Osławski Foundation and went on a study trip to Germany, France, England, Italy and Egypt. The original versions of the letters are stored in the Special Collections of the Scientific Library of the PAAS and the PAS in Cracow, manuscript ref. no. 2402, vol. 3.