This article discusses different forms – in terms of genre – of recording (private letters, diaries, reportage) of Maria Dąbrowska’s three journeys to Yugoslavia. In the author’s opinion these accounts reveal the tension between the subjective truth of being here and now, which Dąbrowska wanted to express, and the objectivity of being, which she wanted to present objectively. They are also a testimony of a typically female, or rather more intensive in women, polisensory experience of the world.