In response to Mr. Czyżewski regarding his note on the city's name, written in connection with my short article published in the October issue of "Głos", I would like to thank you for your substantive reaction. At the same time, I must state that you have not read my earlier article, "Bolesławiec or Bolesław", published in the May 1994 issue of "Głos". That would already explain much in this matter. At the outset, I declare that I do not intend to bring about a change in the city's name or to construct a new theory concerning its name. In my publications, I relied on two sources from the previous century, wishing in this way to enrich our residents' knowledge of their city. These Polish sources were, as I assume, previously unknown. One may ask the authors of the "Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and Other Slavic Countries" (1880) and the "Handy Universal Encyclopedia" (1873) why they included our city under the entry Bolesław, giving Bunzlau in Prussian Silesia in parentheses (original spelling). I should recall that the author of the entry was the geographer Professor Filip Sulimierski (1843–85), and that the published "Dictionary" is regarded as the second monumental work of Polish geography, after J. Długosz's Chorographia Regni Poloniae. For the sake of interest, in this 16-volume dictionary, cities such as Jelenia Góra, Lubań, Wleń, Lwówek Śląski, Legnica and Wrocław appear under the respective entries: Jelenia góra, Lubań, Wleń, Lwów in Prussian Silesia, Lignica and Wrocław. One might undertake a scholarly study of why, after the war, the Polish administration used the name Bolesław instead of Bolesławiec. Surely this did not arise out of nowhere. Enclosed is a copy of the entry from volume I of the "Dictionary", p. 298. "Bolesław, German Bunzlau, a town in Prussian Silesia, in the Lignica administrative district, a county town since 1818, on the right bank of the Bóbr River, on the railway line from Lignica to Kohlfurth, 110 kilometres from Wrocław, founded around 1190 by Bolesław the Tall, Duke of Wrocław, and formerly endowed with great privileges. In 1217, at night, it was attacked by brigands, who horribly plundered the town. The Hussites seized it in 1427. In 1629, a fire destroyed the library and the armoury. In 1642, it surrendered to Duke Francis–Albert of Saxe-Lauenburg. It is surrounded by walls, towers and ditches, and has three suburbs. Bolesław boasts a well-organised orphanage and has a seminary for training teachers, two printing houses and two bookshops. The inhabitants, numbering 9,000, are Germans; they engage in the manufacture of cloth, yarn and linen, and in the grain trade, while the local pottery is particularly famous. During the war between Russia and Prussia against Napoleon I, in the spring of 1813, the Russian field marshal Kutuzov died here; two monuments stand here in his honour. Saint Hedwig erected a Catholic church here in 1261; it was Protestant from 1524 to 1629 and renovated in 1699. The Evangelical parish church was erected in 1833–1835. Several municipal schools. Four fairs. A factory producing silk goods and cloth. The German poet Martin Opitz was born here. Bolesławiec County covers 18½ square miles and 57,537 morgens, and is predominantly Evangelical. The soil is not very fertile; there are considerable peat bogs. The principal products are clay, peat, lime, hard coal, iron ore, sandstone, timber, tar and game.