addressing Montilla as his eternal friend and asking him humorously "Si yo fuera loco como Tomas, diria: ¡Cuanto podria responder!!!", remarking philosopically that "Nada amigo [...] es el mismo siempre; y yo mas mismo que nunca", asking him to come and see him so they could embrance each other ("Vente p. aca y nos abrazaremos.") and suggesting he ask Don Domingo if he needed money
1 page (360 x 230mm.), on personal letterheaded paper "Simon Bolivar, Presidente de la República, Capitan-General de sus Exércitos [etc.]", "J. Jellyman 1816" watermark, Quarto-general del Rosario, 22 July 1820, integral address leaf, browning and margins frayed in places, some tears at fold, professionally restored, traces of old repairs