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81P.S. Messrs Szyrma 95 , Mochnacki 96 , Kunatt and Plater 97 arrived in Parisyesterday, the 24 th . Should Your Honor have an opportunity to communicatemy address to one of the professors at the Polytechnic Institute, or to one ofmy brothers [one was a student in the Medical School, the other in thePolytechnic Institute0, you would be doing me a great favor. Oblige them, inmy name, to write at least a few words to me.1. This is another version of the preceding letter, with changes that were the result of meeting andtalking with some of the first emigrants. It was in this form that the letter was sent.95 Christian Lach Szyrma (1791-1866) - Originally from Mazowsze, he studied in Królewiec, andwas professor of philosophy at the Royal University of Warsaw [where he taught Bogdan Jański].He participated in the Uprising, and later worked among the emigrants in France and England.96 Maurice Mochnacki (1804-1834) - Literary critic, historian and politician in the NovemberUprising; he and his brother Camillus were close friends of Bogdan Jański in Warsaw and Paris. Itwas from them that he contracted tuberculosis.97 Caesar Plater (1810-1869) - Captain of the military forces in Lithuania during the Uprising;member of the Diet of 1831; active among the emigrants, first in Jański’s circle, then in that of A.Czartoryski, and finally with the Resurrectionists. From 1843 he was the Lord of Góra kołoŚremu.