Manila
Manila, 2 June 1890
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
Brussels
DEAR BROTHER,
I suppose our letters have been lost on the way for you [have] not answered even one of them, but I don’t doubt that you will answer this letter, even with only two lines.
I have read your letter to Aunt Concha in which you say clearly that you are very resentful of your family or your sisters. Naturally, brother, you can tell us what we deserve, but you understand perfectly what is happening to us here if we do not continue writing you. The impediment is a penalty or torture for us.
In the month of December, on the 14th, I gave birth to a boy whose name is Arsenio, so that we now have 5 boys and 2 girls. All my dreams are that they would get an education, which is the most important to them.
Antonino has been suffering for 6 or 7 months from an ailment on the head which appears in the form of pimples and at times like dry mange. They grow even on the face.
Our parents are well and our Soledad got married on 23 April. Nobody of our family went to her wedding, nor was any one invited either.
Your sister who loves you and wishes you happiness and is anxious to see you,
NARCISA RIZAL
P.S.: Frank now prattles very well and is very amusing. He has a sweet disposition and very judicious. Antonio knows how to draw a little. It seems that these two will turn out like their godfather. May God will it so.
THE SAME
01-541 [Family]