Letter from Samuel to Martyrios about debt collection and a mill TM 35476Oxyrhynchosspätes V

[recto, centre] 643 (Christian symbol) To my lord, most honoured brother Martyrios, Samuel, greetings. Before all else I pray to the all-merciful God for your health. I want you to know that by the grace of God we were able to do a great deal of work in Senokomis, and many of them have paid their principal. Only the interest for the year (?) did we remit to them, and what they owe for the current period we demanded from them down to a single bundle. So do not worry at all about us. Do the work yourself. For I hear from the man bringing your letter that you are still busy with the [...] of Akoutos and that he has had no dealings in Pakerke about the collection. Do you not know that if the water recedes and they are found [recto, margin] I pray for your health for many years. [verso] to do work in the fields, no one will pay attention to you any more? What you are doing, do it. For, God willing, if we clear our lands, after three days I am going up to the city together with Faustinianos, and I will have the same Faustinianos meet you at Pakerke. I want you to know about Orthonios' mill that I made his wife lease it with all goodwill, and how much we went through with that fool Horos until we could throw him out of the property there, saying that my father also owns half of it. And the pagarch of the village at the same time sent a collector to collect [...], and I was made to pay for the same mill 2,250 myriads of denarii, and I received the receipt [...] [...] [...] grace [...]