May our Lord have you in His Holy keeping.

Done in Seville, February 25, 1505.

I wrote you and sent it by Amerigo Vespucci.

See that he sends you the letter unless you have already received it.
"Your father.
Xpo FERENS.//" This is the last letter of Columbus known to us otherwise an entirely unimportant document, dealing with the most transient affairs.

With it we gladly bring to an end this exposure of a greedy and querulous period, which speaks so eloquently for itself that the less we say and comment on it the better.
In the month of May the Admiral was well enough at last to undertake the journey to Segovia.