Dapitan
He encourages his mother to buy a lot in Meisik, Manila — He asks for family data for a genealogy.
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Dapitan, 25 September 1895
MY VERY BELOVED MOTHER,
The purpose of these few lines is to tell you that I am in good health as always.
I have learned through Trining that you intend to buy a lot in Meisik.[1] That seems to me very good. It is a secluded and quiet place and moreover there you were born, which is the principal thing. In my leisure moments I devote myself to doing some things. I should like you to write down everything about your relatives, ancestors, etc., because I am planning to prepare a genealogy[2] for the use of our nephews. Likewise, if you could write about my father, I would appreciate it. What I was doing in Hong Kong remained there.
We had a month of continuous wind and great billows.
I kiss your hand fondly and I ask you for your blessing.
J. RIZAL
03-868 [Reformists]
[1] A lot on Alvarado Street, near Soler and Reina Regente streets
[2] This genealogical tree made by him a t Dapitan was published for the first time by Austin Craig in Lineage, Life, and Labors of J. Rizal, Manila.