Dapitan
25 October 1893
MRS. SATURNINA RIZAL
MY DEAR SISTER,
A great weight has been lifted from us when we received the news of your happy delivery. Nanay [Mother] became very glad, as all of us did.
Nanay believes that you will come someday. Here you can trade in clothes, jewels, and abaca.
I don’t know who there needs a prescription for herpes. The treatment that I follow is to give arsenical liquor of Fowler in drops, 5 every day, and then wash the herpes with a solution of sublimate, 1 x 1000. I don’t know if it is Sra. Concha or Sra. Sisa who has a child with herpes.
With nothing more for the present, your very affectionate brother who loves you,
JOSÉ RIZAL
01-799 [Family]