Brussels
Brussels, 19 April 1891
MR. JOSE BASA
Hong Kong
MY DEAR FRIEND BASA,
In my previous letter I asked you if you could advance me the passage money to that colony via the Messageries Maritimes. Now I again insist on it; I am decided to leave as soon as I receive your letter, for nothing now detains me in Europe. As soon as I receive your letter, I will aboard the first boat; if I had the money now, I would embark at once.[1]
Enclosed are one letter for Buencamino and another for my family. It seems that Buencamino has repented of his past and now is working again for his countrymen.
I hope we meet soon. With this is my photo as souvenir.
Affectionately yours,
RIZAL
You may address your letter to me to 38 Rue Phil. de Champagne, Brussels.
03-619 [Reformists]
[1] At this time Rizal was so depressed on account of the marriage of his fiancée Leonor Rivera to another man (Mr. Charles H. Kipping, an Englishman, engineer of the Manila Railroad) and of his disappointment with the Filipinos at Madrid that he wanted to leave Europe at once, even borrowing money from his friend Mr. Basa.