Letter (number unidentified). To Don Alphonsus Velasquez, Bishop of Osma, Palencia, March 21, 1581

Thanks. Project of a foundation at Soria.

JESUS! May the grace of the Holy Spirit be with your Lordship.

| WANT to write you a long letter but it is my ill luck not to have time for it (though the gentleman who brought your note, and who spent the day here, strongly urged me to do so). Your Lordship shows me kindness in every way. I sent you a letter by another route which I think must have reached you. There is nothing new here except complications about a house which I fear will detain me at Palencia during the spring.

As regards the project about which you write,’ though it would be an advantage for all of us, I am not sure that I should like to see you involved in all the troubles connected with such matters, for they are terrible. Pray about it: His Majesty will direct it. I am well and our affairs seem prospering.

Please God that your Lordship may always do the same! I am being so hurried that I can write no more. To-day is Tuesday in Holy Week. Your Lordship’s unworthy servant and subject, Teresa de Jesus.