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This correspondence encompasses a long period between 1858 and 1889. First Rački, as a poor scholar from a politically non-definedcountry,wrotelettersfrom Rome, where he searched for medieval Croatian manuscripts. There, he was found by the patriotic bishop of Djakovo Josip Juraj Strossmayer. He wrote letters to the Czech nationalist, the father of the Czech nation František Palacký, who was favourably disposed to Croatians and Croatian nationalism, which after the Czech revival followed in their footsteps. In Palacký he found a devoted reader of his letters. We then follow Racki as an education officialandthepresidentofthe Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences organizing Croatian education system and science education. There, he asked for the assistance of the Czech scholar and politician Josef Jirecek, who provided him with two professors to teach at the newly established Univerity of Zagreb, which was then the capital of the recently recognized Kingdom of Croatia Slavonia. Racki also wrote letters to Alois Vojtĕh Šembera in order to purchase the library of his late father who was a physician. It was an unsuccessful attempt due to government bureaucracy so he looked for a sponsor in order to purchase an Egyptian collection of baron Alexander Koller, which he eventually did ,with bishop Strossmayer and the Countess Elisabeth Draskovic's money.

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