Calamba
Calamba, 30 May ’90
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
MY DEAR BROTHER,
We have been wishing for a long time to write you, but we haven’t done it because first of all — I’m going to tell you the truth since you abhor falsehood — we are very lazy to write and secondly, which you already know, of the poverty of our minds. Although you need not know it, let me tell you that Sra. N.[1] took me to Lipa in January of last year. I stayed at the house of your friend, M. C. [Mariano Catigbak] who received us very well. If you resent that we have not written you, please excuse our stupidity.
What I can say about our family is included in T.’s [Trinidad’s] letter, for she wrote her draft ahead of me. Many regards to you and your sister wishes you good health and command your sister who never forgets you.
Your sister,
JOSEFA
01-535 [Family]
[1] Perhaps Neneng (Saturnina)