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613Letter Nr. 150[To A. Jabłoński]Paris, September 7, 1838No, no my ever dearest Adam 804 , my heart has not changed in your regard,in spite of my failure to respond to your letters. This is a most unfortunate fault ofmine (which thereby becomes such a sinful habit), the unconquered fault ofslothfulness in correspondence. It is the sole reason why, while you wereconstantly on my mind and my heart was turned to you, I could not get myself torespond, until now.In my quite numerous relations with the emigrants I use the brothers wholive with me as intermediaries in correspondence.(I think you know that for the past three years I am living in a community,a kind of family, with many of our young compatriots. These people dedicatethemselves to various occupations: some as clerics, others as lay people. Of theclerics: Kajsiewicz and Semenenko have already spent one year in Romestudying; Duński and Joseph Hube (a former professor) will be going there for thesame purpose within a few days. In their place, the following will enter theseminary at the College Stanislas: Leopold Turowski from Płock, FrancisKrahnas, Alexander Biergiel and... someone you would never suspect, our formercolleague, Marian Kamocki, who came here from Bordeaux a few months ago,and is. also living-with me; a widower now, he wishes to become a priest).In the parentheses you now have statistical information our spiritualfoundation.I declare, then, and I forewarn you that instead of abstaining from writingfor as long as I did in the present instance, I prefer to send you a few words thatcome from me, but are written by the hand of one of my brothers. Do not let this804 Adam Jabłoński - A colleague of Bogdan Jański from Pułtusk and the Royal University ofWarsaw.