Madrid
Madrid, 7 July 1886
MR. JOSE RIZAL
DEAR PEPE,
I write you again to find out if you have received a registered letter with the amount of 100 pesetas that I sent you more than a week ago.
As I have not received your reply, 1 doubt if it has reached you. If you have not received it, I should like you to answer me so that I can take the necessary step in case of loss.
I am determined to spend this summer at Paris, for one or two months. Before leaving this place, I will let you know; otherwise, perhaps when I am already in Paris.
It is almost sure that I shall make the trip between the 15th and 20th of this month, stopping at Biarritz for a couple of weeks and from there I leave for the neighboring capital. However, I believe I would be there without failure in the last fortnight of the coming month and even before (middle of August).
Nothing happens in the colony. All are well and healthy. Our friend Tiangco will depart for Manila with, in a few days, having been appointed fiscal of Barotac Viejo, and for this reason he intends to embark on the first of next month. He will leave this capital between the 12th and the 15th to catch the boat at Cadiz or Valencia.
I am glad that you are in good health. Moreover, I hope, though it is casuistical, that we shall meet anywhere, if Providence so disposes.
Ever yours,
CEFERINO
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