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70Letter Nr. 14Paris, July 19, 1829 83The letter that I am now sending to Your Honor was written on the15th. I had hoped to entrust it to Mr. Łabęcki along with the copy of YourHonor's work. However, for the last several days I was free only in theafternoons, and as luck would have it, I could not contact him in the afternoon.I was only able to reach him this morning, this being a Sunday. He told me thathe would send both the letter and the ―Journal‖ to Your Honor in the nearfuture.As for the book: He stated that Your Honor had written that he intendedto dedicate it to the King of France, and that Your Honor had connections thatwould open the way for him to make the presentation. However, since he hadnot received any specific directives from Your Honor, he does not know howhe should proceed. I am relaying this information to Your Honor, with theunderstanding that Your Honor will provide proper directives: either directlyto Mr. Łabęcki, or, if Your Honor has other requests to make of me, in a letterthat can reach me through the Secretary of the Polytechnic Council. ShouldYour Honor find it useful, My address is: Rue Git le Couer, Nr.3.At the same time, I beg Your Honor to forgive anything that might beout of order in my letters - frequent errors of style, to be sure - and not holdthis against me. I am not using the lack of time as an excuse, for in any eventthere can never be a lack of time when it comes to caring for Your Honor'sinterests. Unfortunately, I may be presuming too much on Your Honor'sgoodness to me. Once again I send Your Honor expressions of deepestgratitude. At all times and in all things I remain ready to serve Your Honor.83 A postscript to the preceding letter. The original is in the Ossolineum. Cf. footnote 1 in theprevious letter.