Calamba
They send him money — Price of sugar is fairly good.
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Calamba, 10 September 1885
DEAR BROTHER,
Enclosed a draft for ₱200. I don’t send it to you by telegraph as I promised you in my preceding letter because it was our mother who went to Manila and brought the draft and then because I saw by your last letter that you still count in some resources.
As you don’t tell me that you have received the sum I sent you at the beginning of April, I send you the second draft in case you have not received the first one.
We have already sold the sugar this year at ₱2 and 4 reales and ₱3 a loaf—prices which are fairly better, relatively speaking, than those of previous years and though they may not enrich the farmer neither do they ruin him.
I should like more information on sugar beet. The idea of serving cholera-stricken towns ought to be practiced only when one has no other recourse, but when one can find elsewhere one or two pesos a day, such an idea ought to be laid aside for family considerations.
In my preceding letter I forgot to tell you that we make cigars at home (one table) and under the present circumstances they are a real aid to sugar.
Your brother,
PACIANO
Brother-in-law Manual sent you ₱100 in August.
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