In His Name, be He glorified!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Having sold some unnecessary foodstuffs and clothes, I am sending you as the price of The Flashes Collection a truly blessed hundred liras together with ten blessed liras, which is what remains of my salary from the Darü'l‑Hikmet — with which I was going to go on the Hajj, and is left from what I have spent on food this last twenty-two years‥