Letter (number unidentified). To Dona Catalina de Tolosa, Probably written at Palencia, August 3, 1582

Dojiia Catalina’s children. Convent affairs.

JESUS! May the Holy Spirit be with your Honour. NOTICED the address and was glad the ‘illustrious’ had been omitted as now I can answer you.

Ican tell you that I and all of us are highly pleased with Lesmes: may God proteét him and make him holy. These two little angels delight me; I asked the Maruca to help me to recite my office. She is portress and does all her work well. Both of them, like myself, long to see you. May God bring the meeting about and reward you for your kindness in writing to me. I am anxious about your health. I should like it to be better and to hear of some improvement in that of my Beatriz. May God give it to her. The letters I have brought with me I have not yet delivered as I am expecting the arrival of ... because all she had was not enough to leave it although during the nine days you kept her in your house no one has seen her. I have told her. ...

Tam very careful to deliver the letters whenever Ican. God grant he may not send them elsewhere again. Tell Isabel de Trazanos and remember me kindly to her. You must know that the Abbess of Santa Dorotea’s gave me two ducats, without knowing. . . since I have seen them it appeared. . .

Now will you, Teresa and Beatriz,’ abide with God, for I have many letters to write. There is an improvement in my quinsy: I do not know how long it will last.

To-day is Friday... 4 in the Boletin de la Real Academia de la Historia, Vol. uxvi, P. 150 sqq. (Madrid, 1915). The end is missing and some parts are illegible.

” One of the convents at Burgos, probably that of Poor Clares.