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The product of a months teachings has been as a total sum, not yet collected-of twenty two dollars I What do you think of that? · I was expecting by this Steamer one hundred dollars from Phila- delphia-and no letters, not even newspapers, are come for me, nor for the merchant, thro.ugh whose house the money must come. Patience! . but, as you see, a Secretar[y]ship of Legation, under such circumstances, is not to be spurn. I recommend me-and your God-daughter, Mrs. Debrin,-to your kindness, and if you think I am fitted for the Legation's service, please, urge efficiently my ap- pointment-you will do thus an act of charity. Mrs. Debrin has been touched at your kind remembrance of her, and wishes me to tell you that she is ready to take Care of you, with all good attention, as soon as you come back to this country-or if at any time I am called, with her, to Costa-Rica. She is well in health and there are not yet signs of any future god-grand-daughter for you. I am, it seems, a good-for-nothing fellow,-if she is good for somethip.g. But, never despair! There is in this city (and to morrow he leaves for Costa Rica on board of the Columbus) a very sensible young merchant and agri- cultor, Don Pedro Alvarado-costarican by birth- He has proved to be a very sincere friend to me. He has pushed me th [r l ough the teachable world and I am much indebted to him for many little services. Amongst these, one has been to abstain from claiming from me ten dollars I borrowed from him-and which I have not been able to give him back before his departure- the Columbus having failed to bring me $100- I expected from the States. . I have told him that "perhaps you would give him some money for me," and asked him to take it with him in order to settle my accounts with him. If you are, then, in very good way to deprive you of the sum of ten dollars, you will oblige me by giving it to Mr. Alvarado: and the first time there is any good occasion, I will not fail to settle with you this ·small account. If you are short of money-there is no harm in it-because I have not told Mr. Alvarado that you had to give me any money-only that perhaps you would have some few dollars to forward to me. General: I do not speak politics to you because nothing-absolutely nothing-has transpired in this city of what the Columbus has brought ~Nobody has received here any letter from the States-not even the wife and family of Genl. Jerez. It seems that this time there has been a general confiscation and secuestration of foreign correspond- ence. Perhaps when the retters shall have been examined at Managua- where probably they have been sent to-they will be brought back to Leon to their owners. ·what a mortal System of post-office ·commu- nication-! What strange sanctity of family- secrecy! Well- let them open now all foreign letters- Perhaps one day will come when they shall not open any more belonging to american citizens I wish this time would have come. Take care of you, General, and tell me whether your health is im- proving at San Jose.
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