Calamba
Calamba, 30-5 [May] 1890
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
MY RESPECTED AND DEAR UNCLE:
Although we have not received your reply to our letter, we write you again. For more than a year I went to Aunt Choleng’s house to learn the alphabet; but since she got married, I stopped going there, because everybody in our house does not want me to go there anymore. But I intend to continue my studies to increase whatever I have learned from Aunt Choleng and for this reason I have begged my parents to let me study in some college.[1] Until now I don’t know their decision, whether they will comply with my wish or not.
I tell you that my mother got sick in March and became gravely ill. Thanks to God she has been saved and now is still a little thin. Lolo [Grandpa] and Lola [Grandma] are very well and are always teasing me. They say that you are coming soon and that I should get the house ready for your return. Sometimes I believe them; may God grant, then, dear Uncle, that you return soon so that we can enjoy ourselves, take a bath in Pansol, and take a stroll with us in Lechería. Uncle Marianito[2] is there and has a niche. We always pass by there when we go to the spring, we, Aunt Pangoy, Aunt Trining, my mother, my little brothers, and Aunt Lucía and her daughters or my cousins. Concha is advanced in her studies. We are all very well; also uncle Paciano, but he is already gray-haired, looking like an old man of 60.
My pleasant regards, dear uncle, and I always remember you.
ANGELÍCA LÓPEZ
01-537 [Family]
[1] She means a boarding school for girls at Manila, popularly called colegio .
[2] Mariano Herbosa , husband of Rizal’s sister Lucía, who died of cholera was buried in the place called Lechería , the church authorities having refused him burial in the cemetery for being Rizal’s brother-in-law.