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360Letter Nr. 68Paris, Summer, 1831[Rough-draft of a letter to Mrs. Matthew Łaszowski]Dear Madame Benefactress!I must first apologize very humbly to my dear aunt, since I presume totrouble you for a while with my concerns. Further, (speaking, or writing openly),since, in these difficult times, I expose you to an expense by this letter. Dear aunt,I hope to thank you personally within a short time for this favor, as well as forhaving provided a place of refuge recently for my poor Alexandra. 259Where is she? Is she well? This is what I want to ask about especially. It isthis knowledge, above all., that I seek... a knowledge that I have been seeking invain, despite having written a few letters.I have had no news since Alexandra last wrote from Warsaw at thebeginning of June. 260 Neither have I had any news from my brothers. At thepresent time I do not have the address to any of my acquaintances in Warsaw. Thefact is, I don’t know to whom I should write in order to obtain any informationabout the persons closest to me - my wife, my father, and my brothers.I would be much obliged to you, dear aunt, if you were to pity my sadsituation and answer my request. My request is: Please be kind enough, dear aunt,to inform Alexandra and my brothers that you have received a letter from me, inwhich I beg them to provide me with some news about themselves.You should be able to find the address of my brother, Stephen Jański, adoctor in the third regiment of mounted riflemen, either in the War Commissionor in the medical department. I don’t know where you can obtain any informationabout Anthony Jański, who was in the artillery. Perhaps Mr. Garbiński, the former259 Alexandra had been asked to leave Pękowo by Francis Grabowski. For short time she foundrefuge with Mr. and Mrs. Łaszowski, who lived at Kozłów together with her parents.260 After a year of silence, Alexandra wrote to inform him that she had moved to the Łaszowski.That letter has been lost.