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today. 582 No other letter arrived besides the four that I have enclosed, except one507[To Caesar Plater]Letter Nr. 125Paris, August 25, 1836How much I must have worried you, dear M. Caesar, by my delay. I havebeen ill for more than a week: a kind of fatigue; a general weakness in the chest,head, and throughout the body; loss of appetite and strength.I am leaving today to visit with Mickiewicz at Domont 581 . After I haverested there for a while, I will write M. Caser a longer letter. (I must limit myselfnow to a few words) x .M. Caesar left here last month, on Thursday, the 11 th . From then untilSunday, absolutely nothing new happened. During the next week a few lettersarrived, which I should have forwarded on the following Sunday, i.e. July 28 th .This is what I intended to do. However, since I myself intended to write a longerletter to M. Caesar, but unable to pull myself together enough to do so, and byreason of my unfortunate weakness, unfortunately I kept putting it off untilfrom Witwicki, thanking you for the reminder you gave him.So far, there is no response from M. Gasparin 583 . By God’s grace,everything goes well with us, that is, there is constants peace, perseverance andhope. (Karski was a little sick a few days ago) x . Sidorowicz 584 has moved here, tolive with us, and we are all very happy with him.581 Adam Mickiewicz was spending the Summer months his family at Dimont, a dozen or sokilometers of Paris.582 Caesar Plater wished to have the mail coming to his address in Paris forwarded to the placewhere he was vocationing.583 Director of a department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.584 Victor Sidorowicz, a grammar school classmate of P. Semenenko, from Kroże, entered the newcommunity.