Manuscript testimonial for Polish revolutionaries Roch Rupniewski and Severin Dziewicki, written and signed by Polish political refugees at Portsmouth, 1835.

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[Portsmouth, 11 March 1835]. Single sheet, 230 x 200 mm, mounted on the recto of a nineteenth-century album leaf, along with the envelope in which it was originally contained; manuscript in ink, with a five-line declaration written in French at the head: Nous [les] sous signés cértifi[ons par la] présente que [Sls?] Roch Rupniewski et Sévérin [D]ziewicki sont des Polonais et qu ils restent actuéllement à Portsmouth ; en foi de quoi nous méttons nos signatures. fait à Portsmouth, le 11 de Mars 1835 ; below, in two columns, are the signatures of fourteen Polish political exiles: [Onufry] Michniewicz ; [Ignacy] Wellmann ; [Apoloniusz] Buchowski ; [Wiktor] Ambrozewicz ; [?] Paworsky ; [Jan] Swidzinsk y; [Franciszek] Linkowski ; [Franciszek] Gasiewski ; [Karol] Siemianowice ; [Adam] Bacynski ; [Marcin] Soroczynski ; [Wojciek] Pietkowski ; [Franciszek] Teklinski ; [Josef] Milaskiewicz ; the sheet has old fold lines, scattered foxing and light staining, with a small section of loss at the top edge (probably from where a seal was broken) resulting in a short lacuna in the first line of the French-language inscription; the accompanying envelope is inscribed Certificate of Polish refugees in Portsmouth (England). Dated 11th March 1835. / J. M. Cook, St. Kilda . Provenance: J. M. Cook, St. Kilda, Melbourne, Australia; autograph album compiled by Jane Emma Murphy (Balcombe) (1854-1924), of The Briars , Mornington (and later, St. Kilda, Melbourne), Victoria, Australia; thence by descent t

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