Manila
Manila, 14 May 1892
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
Hong Kong
ESTEEMED JOSE,
Five or six days after the arrival at this capital city of Captain Martin, he came to visit us here, bringing me at the same time your letter addressed to Captain General Despujol[1] and advising me to mail the letter because he had to go to his hometown the following day. He could not deliver it himself to the captain general because he was away and would not be back until the end of the month. He is on a tour of the southern islands.
I suppose our parents have already told you about what happened to Sisa three days after her delivery. She was gravely ill of puerperal fever, according to Zamora; but today, thank God, she is completely safe.
This is all. Receive our affectionate regards and command your brother-in-law who embraces you.
ANTONINO
I’ll mail your letter as soon as the captain general returns from his tour. I dare not do it now for fear that it might be lost.
The same
03-735 [Reformists]
[1] Rizal’s second letter to Governor General Despujol reiterating his offer of his services to the administration, dated at Hong Kong, 21 March 1892. In it he informs His Excellency of his Borneo project, that is, to establish a Filipino colony in North Borneo. ( Epistolario Rizalino , III. 305-307.)