Manila
Manila, 2 June ’90
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
MY DEAR BROTHER,
Perhaps you are very resentful because I haven’t written you, but don’t think that I’ve forgotten you, for you already know how dear you are to me.
Last year, when for the first time they exiled Maneng, I wrote you twice, as I did when my daughter Amelia died, but you haven’t answered me even once. Since then I have not been able to write you due to the preoccupations that fill my head. Now I take care of our home and the children. From now on you will receive letters from me.
Through Maneng’s letters you must have learned by now that the General has exiled him again. I’m again in charge of our property and the milling in Mainit and Tanawan, for when they exiled him, it was already December, on the very day of Christmas, while we were eating. Please see to it that this imbroglio is terminated soon.
I’m in Manila because Zamora is going to treat me. He says that my womb is swollen, is out of place, and is dirty; but I don’t feel the symptoms he mentions. He has already examined me twice and does not want to tell me how much each consultation costs, so that I don’t know how to repay him. He told me to buy a vaginal syringe and gave me three kinds of medicine which are Belladona, Extramonio, and Sauco.
Embraces and kisses from Alfredo, Adela, and Abelardo. Those two are already studying, but Abelardo cannot talk til now. Why is he like that? I’m going to take Alfredo to the Jesuits.
An embrace and kisses of your sister who loves you very much.
SATURNINA RIZAL
01-540 [Family]