Mr. Washburn to Señor Caminos.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, in which your honor informs me that the money left with me belonging to Señor Parodi, and that of Mrs. Grant, I should be permitted to take with me, paying the duty. Mr. Parodi has already taken his away, and I will pay the duty on the three hundred patacones of Mrs. Grant. Ulrich’s money will be left with the other things in my house. Your honor also informs me that many people who have left their valuables in my house are desirous of taking them away before my departure, and the hope is expressed that I will delay my voyage till they may be able to do so, as some of them will be rendered insolvent if unable to recover their property now in my possession. In answer to this, I will observe that all these things will be left in two or three rooms of this house, the keys of which will be sent to the care of your honor, so that I do not see why they may not recover them as well after my departure as before, and I shall therefore decline to delay my voyage a single hour for such purpose. I am ready to go now, at an hour’s notice, and have been so ever since I received my passports, and if I do not leave to-day it will be because I am unable to do so. Your honor will know at what hour the steamer will leave, and till near that time I shall be happy to deliver to their owners any things in my possession.
I improve this occasion to tender to your honor assurances of high regard and distinguished consideration.
His Honor Luis Caminos, Acting Minister of Foreign Relations.