Calamba
He has been sick — Sends money to Rizal, but he will have to go to Madrid to get it — Will send more once the sugar is sold — He wants to sell Rizal’s horse for P250 — He inquires about the cost of printing a work in Leipzig — Locust infestation.
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Calamba, 27 August 1886
DEAR BROTHER,
We received your four letters on the 24th of this month after an interruption of nearly two months.
As I’m suffering from acute dysentery, about three weeks ago, I sent to Manila 100 pesos to be sent through the Tuason firm. They got the draft not from Tuason but from Vara, so that I doubt if you can cash it in Frankfurt, though surely in Madrid. This will cost you delay, favor, and postage; but as the draft cannot be returned any more, there is no alternative but to use it. Be satisfied with that amount for the present, because our sugar is still in the warehouse, despite your good news. When it is sold, I’ll send you some more money immediately.
They offer ₱220 for the chestnut horse, I ask only ₱250 and I sell it, first, because I don’t use it and then it is getting old.
I received the photographs of the married gentlemen – Luna and Resurrección.
I wish to know how much is the cost of printing a work there in I,eipzig or anywhere else, that I can have ready the amount or borrow it, because the situation of our brothers-in-law does not permit them to help you.
In my next letter, I shall write longer, if this sickness leaves me.
Your brother,
PACIANO
Whole towns, like Calamba, Santo Tomás, and Tanawam are covered with locusts, a plague [that] destroys all kinds plants.
01-167 [Family]