Manila
Manila, 13 October 1892
MR. JOSE RIZAL
MY DEAR PEPE,
I received through the Very Reverend Father Superior your esteemed letter of 1st September and I am informed of its content. I am glad you like my insignificant work on the Waters of Luzon; but I must inform you that in that report only the chemical part is mine; all studies pertaining to geological, climatological, and therapeutic matters belong to the president and physician of the Commission.
I have added to the remittance to Father Sanchez one bottle with 100 grams of Fehling’s liquor for the analysis of urine and six tubes for experiment that you asked me.
Of Sonchier telemeters, like the ones I furnished Father Sanchez, I have none left, nor are there any in the market. They have to be ordered in Paris.
As to payment, you have nothing to think of, for Fehling’s reagent and the tubes cost nothing; use them as my remembrance.
May you continue in good and health and . . . may you remember now and then those happy days when we were fellow members of the executive board of the congregation of the Immaculate Conception at the Ateneo! I know that you have forgotten or despised them, but on my part I assure you that several times a day those happy days cross my imagination. Will you be a good enough friend of mine to remember also?
My wife and children return your affectionate regards. As to Mama . . . your letter, received on the 6th instant arrived at the precise moments when the poor one was entering the period of agony of her long and chronic illness. On the 9th, at 7:30 in the morning, it pleased God to call her to His glory. May she rest in peace, she who, with solicitous care, maintained, educated, and taught me the right road since the age of the five, when I lost my father!
It is in these cruel moments, Friend Pepe, that one appreciates the value of religious sentiments! What would human life be without them?
Pardon me for speaking to you of this; it is an unbosoming of your friend who loves you.
ANACLETO
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