Manila
29 November 1886
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
ESTEEMED JOSÉ,
I send you enclosed a draft for ₱300 which you can collect from the Berlin Bank, but the firm that issued that draft told me that you can collect it there in Leipzig, as it must have a branch there in that important city. I made it so in order that it will not suffer many discounts for transfer, as I suppose you know that the transfer of money from one point to another causes a diminution in its amount. You will write us if this suits you, or what would be a more economical and easier way to cash, so that I can follow it in the future as well as how to send it to reach you in a short time without bothering Mr. Luna.
Paciano says you must not make any decision concerning our return to the Philippines while you receive no letter from him which will not be very long now. One hundred pesos of the draft is your allowance and the two hundred for the printing of your work and winter suits.
Hidalgo’s mother died on the 15th instant. Nanay [Mother] and Trining [Trinidad] were here in Manila on the 7th and we called on your friend Cabangis to thank for him for delivering to the two of us of Hidalgo the two boxes of your books without charging us anything. I believe you ought to do the same by letter. He lives in front of Tondo church
Nothing more for now. Olimpia and my two boys are here. We are well as those in Calamba.
Your brother-in-law who esteems you,
SILVESTRE UBALDO
01-184 [Family]