You write that you are going to take the field with your regiment; how will you forward the letter? Do not send it by a messenger; be careful! My parents might—they might misunderstand.
Once more I embrace you. You are going to the war; come back a colonel. May all go well! Why can I not at least be your drummer? Excuse this rambling letter, for I feel quite dazed.
Your faithful
FREDERIC[88]
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Speaking of this new Constitution, Fox said, “It is a work, in which every friend to reasonable liberty must be sincerely interested.” Burke exclaimed: “Humanity must rejoice and glory when it considers the change in Poland.”—Translatorʼs Note.
[2] In a letter to the King of Poland, dated May 23rd, he said, “I congratulate myself on having had it in my power to maintain the liberty and independence of the Polish nation, and one of my most pleasing cares will be to support and draw closer the bond which unites us.”—Translatorʼs Note.
[3] All the foreign biographers of Chopin have mistaken the date of his birth. Even on his monument at Père la Chaise, in Paris, 1810 is engraven instead of 1809, an error which ought to have been rectified long ago.
[4] This March was afterwards published in Warsaw, but without the composerʼs name.
[5] This story is given by Wladislaus Casimir Wocicki in his work entitled “Cmentarz Powazkowski.”