General Manuel Echeverría and Colonel Francisco Estrada:

The persons who have come are Lola Matamoros and Virginia Tercero, who are undoubtedly our best political friends. These women bring a letter from whose signatures I cannot even read as it is written in pencil with crooked lines, for which I doubt it and tore it as supicious because it might have been, and that way no one can do anything with me. The letter said that he was not an American and only wanted to have a conference with me at the place we would say.

My answer will be this: to accept conferences I would have done it when the traitor Moncada did it and because you were ot an American makes no difference, because in our attitude we have no resolution but to die or conquer and we do not permit conferences with anyone while the invadors are despoiling our soil.

General, more or less in those terms should you answer the letter and I beg you to make the letter tonight so we can type it tomorrow. I will take all the precautions of the case. They would not sell us but they could bring a poison without knowing which has not done any harm either.

Patria y Libertad

/s/ Augusto C. Sandino