04-023 [Misc.]
1881 Manila
From: José Rizal
To: Paciano Rizal
Rizal is headed back to Calamba as a newly licensed land surveyor
Manila, 1881
MR. PACIANO MERCADO
(Calamba)
MY DEAR BROTHER,
The survey[1]which I have to make is as unreliable and informal as so many are said and thought to be. At any rate I’ll go there to spend two days.
I have my license signed by the Office of Forest Inspection.
Your brother,
J. Rizal
[1] Rizal studied surveying at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and received a surveyor’s diploma in 1881. Apparently his brother had asked him to survey a piece of land belonging to the family.