04-011 [Misc.]
1878.10.08 San Fernando, La Union
From: Enrique Lete
From: Jose Rizal
Enrique Lete proposes an exchange of bobbin.
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San Fernando, La Union
8 October 1878
MY DEAR FRIEND RIZAL,
With your letter of the last mail before me, by which I see that you are well as I am here, I write you this.
I thank you for the accurate explanation that you give me of what I asked you, only I ask you to excuse me of my promise, for I did not want to offend you with it.
With my letter of the past mail you must have received my picture, unless it has been lost and I believe that you will agree with what I tell you about the group. In that letter I asked you also to buy me a pair of iron weights and tell me its price in your reply so that I can send it to you through the bearer of the picture, but I forgot to tell you to do me the favor also to see if in some drugstore or bazaar there is for sale some alembic like that in the College, though a little larger. Buy it and tell me also its price so that I can pay you.
Now I am going to propose to you an exchange, which if you accept it, I shall appreciate very much: It is your bobbin, that one in the small box, for mine which you have also seen, plus an amount that you want to add, for yours costs more than mine. I tell you this for the bichromate pile that I have does not make mine work, except a little, and there you can get Bunsen piles for you do not lack ingredients. I hope you will tell me then whether or not you like to exchange; if you do, I can send it through the same bearer of the picture. Mine has its pile and Geisler tube just as I bought it for Pl. Yes or no? You know me already, if you do not want to give it up, tell me frankly “No”, and if it seems to you all right, “Yes”. Either way I shall be grateful to you. On my first trip to that city we shall settle accounts.
With nothing more to tell you and wishing you good health, I remain as ever your most affectionate friend,
ENRIQUE.