 The letter, published in "Teka Wileńska", was also one of the first to publicly raise the idea of publishing a Lithuanian-language newspaper.In 1858, Akelaitis moved to () in Courland to live with Petras Smuglevičius, a medical doctor and a relative of painter Franciszek Smuglewicz.There he found Simonas Daukantas who wrote the first Lithuanian-language history of Lithuania.