S. BOLÍVAR, AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO TOMÁS MONTILLA, 22 JULY 1820

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

Simon Bolivar, Obras Completas, vol. 1 (La Habana, 1950), no. 417, p.480

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate
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Autograph letters by Bolivar are uncommon at auction. This is a very personal letter to Tomás Montilla, signed affectionately "tu-yo Simon". Montilla, called "El Brillante" by Bolivar, was born in Caracas in 1787 and was the younger brother of Mariano Montilla (1782–1851), General of the Army of Venezuela in the Venezuelan War of Independence. Tomás joined the revolutionary forces in 1810 and in 1813 he fought in the Campaña Admirable under the command of Bolívar, winning in Niquitao, Los Horcones and Taguanes. He reached the rank of Brigadier General and died in 1822.