Henryk Sienkiewicz

From The Paderewski memoirs

During that tour [1907-8] I was invited to play at the White House, on which occasion I met President Theodore Roosevelt, who made a deep impression upon me. A strong, Brilliant, and exceptionally well-informed man, knowing a great deal about European conditions, nd particularly acquainted with my own country, which was chiefly due to his love of our remarkable writer, Sienkiewicz, who wrote those world-famous novels, By Fire and Sword, Children of the Soil, and Quo Vadis. He told me that he travelled for years with Sienkiewicz's trilogy. Certain opinions about my country expressed by President Roosevelt were extremely encouraging to me, and I still gladly and gratefully remember every word he said on that subject.

The Paderewski memoirs,
by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Mary Lawton (1938, 1939).
London : Collins 1939, pp. 363-4.