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43Neither Mr. Plater not Mr. Garbiński has kept his word relative to thestatement made publicly last October, included in the clipping from the―Polish Gazette‖ 21 which you sent to me. You can blame them for our mostrecent disappointment. But if you intend to complain to the Board of thePolytechnic Institute, you will not get anywhere, for the judges of yourcomplaint will be the accused themselves. It would be better to denounce themfor breaking a promise they made publicly. Yet here too you will encounternew difficulties. Legal procedures cost money, and that we do not have. Weare faced with a problem that has no solution.With regard to money, I am very much amazed by Jaroszewski's 22conduct. Even before I received your last letter I wrote to him, especially sinceI had not had any word from him for at least two months. Obviously we can nolonger count on him for any cash subsidy. This set-back grieves me all themore because it affects you directly. It will be two months before I receive anyadvance on my future salary. Please believe me, right now I have barelyenough to cover absolute necessities. However, as I love you, in July I willsend you as much money as I can. You can count on that. If possible, pleaselet me know, more or less, how much you will need for necessary expensesand to pay your creditors. I may even be able to send instructions directly to21 . ―The Polish Gazette‖, Warsaw, 1829, No. 281, p.1224 (October 20, 1829). ―A report on the1829-1830 school year presented by the Honorable Garbiński, Director of the Preparatory Schoolof the Polytechnic Institute, Professor at the Royal University of Warsaw, etc.‖ Alexandra had cutout the article because it stated: ―Therefore, especially next year when the remaining professorsreturn from abroad, namely those destined to teach the full complement of commercial subjects,the program of our Institute will include all of the practical sciences‖. The Plater and Garbińskimentioned here were school authorities at Warsaw. Louis Plater (1774-1846) was a Senator andPalace Governor of the Kingdom of Poland, President of the Board of the Polytechnic Institute,and later a secret envoy of the revolutionary Political Mission in Paris (March 8, 1831). He wasGeneral Kniaziewicz's right hand man in work among the emigrants, and permanent vicepresidentof the Literary Society. Prior to the revolution he was a noted geographer. CajetanGarbiński (1796-1848) was a noted mathematician, appointed professor of higher mathematics atthe Royal University of Warsaw in 1824. From 1825 he was the Director of the above-mentionedPreparatory School of the Polytechnic Institute. He was author of several books on mathematics.After the failure of the uprising, and the suppression of schools of higher learning in Poland, heworked for the Zamojski Estate.22 Mentioned once before, Michael Jaroszewski was a cousin of Bogdan Jański. He sold Bogdan'sshare of Pogorzelec, but he never turned the money over to Bogdan, in spite of many requests intime of need.