Benzeval-Houlgate
12 October 1890
Juan Luna
Dear Rizal:
I received your letter day before yesterday and today that of Antonio.
His matriculation fees amount to 162 pesetas. Enclosed are 100 and the rest I hope you would advance, because today is Sunday and I cannot send a draft, and I have not found bills of 50 to enclose in this letter, which must get there quickly because Antonio says that the matriculation closes on the 16th.
Please give him at once 162 pesetas and tomorrow I am going to send you a draft to cover the balance. Pardon a thousand times these troubles; but, chap, I could spare you all this by sending the money directly to Antonio. However, I sent him the payment for his diploma, which had come from Manila, and until now I do not know whether he has spent all of it or part of it, inasmuch as he has not written me yet if he has already the diploma.
I am making this confession to show you why I am obliged to trouble you in this manner.
Tell Antonio then that I have asked you this special favor, and if he does not like to accept the money, please matriculate for him and send him the papers.
Doña Juliana is asking if all the works of St. Augustine are in Latin. If that is so, then she has no use for them, as you well understand.
I am very busy with the house.
What a mean and narrow criterion! It is true that ignorant people believe that the best painters in the world come from their race.
Regards from Paz, Doña Juliana, and kisses from my children.
Yours affectionately
Luna
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