Calamba
Calamba, 6 March 1887
DEAR BROTHER,
Enclosed in this letter is a letter addressed to Mr. Luna at Paris with a draft for ₱1, 000. I don’t send it to you directly for fear that it might be lost, because you yourself tell me that you are thinking of going to Switzerland. I should like to send you more but I cannot do it; because last year’s sugar is still unsold. Nonetheless, I believe that if this amount is not enough, it is sufficient for your traveling expenses, doctoral fees, costs of ophthalmology instruments — the most essential —and if something still remains, use it for the printing of the book. Wait for better times to buy the other things that you need, as I abstain from having for the present a bicycle and a German rifle of the kind you describe to me in your letter. It would not be superfluous to have there a friend who can take charge of these orders once you are here.
I stopped sending you your allowance for the months of January and February because, after having sent you ₱300 we received your letter in which you tell us that the printing costs at least from ₱400 to ₱500 from which I deduce that it will not be printed and therefore you will use the money for your personal expenses.
I could write you many things but the milling prevents me from doing so, and then I hope to tell you verbally on the day of the town fiesta, if God and the civil guard will permit it.
02-202 [Blumentritt V.1]