The article is based upon the publication of a number of letters and short notices (in anauthentic transcript) that Louis Adamic sent to the author, his nephew Tine Kurent, between 1946-50. The contents of these letters as well as some of the author’s spelling errors reveal, besides his current activities and future plans, the writer’s emotional stateat the time when he was writing them.Prispevek se opira na objavo nekaterih pisem (v avtentičnemu prepisu), ki jih je Louis Adamič poslal svojemu nečaku Tinetu Kurentu v letih 1946 - 50. Tako vsebina kot tudi nekatere pravopisne napake v pismih odkrivajo - poleg podatkov o Adamičevih tedanjih dejavnosti in načrtih - tudi njegova čustvena stanja v trenutkih, ki jih je pisal
