Dapitan
Dapitan, 13 March 1894
MR. MANUEL T. HIDALGO
MY DEAR BROTHER-IN-LAW MANENG,
This mail has been very odd. I have not received more than your letter of the 10th and that of Antonino of the month of February. I do not know what they have done with mine that you say absolutely nothing about them.
Tell Silvestre that I do not see the indication of pilocarpine, for I cannot examine his vision from here. But if his sickness arises from paludism, I advise him to take arsenic, beginning with ten drops daily of Fowler’s arsenical liquor and increasing by two every day until 30 drops.
We have not received neither rice nor sugar nor anything by this mail boat and am very much afraid that our supply would be exhausted.
They do not write us from there whether or not they have received either the ₱50 we sent through Mateo or the ₱200 that we sent through Mr. Domingo Orlach.
Here we continue in good health and I only miss my books that I should like to have beside me for reference. I have very many patients who come from different towns and now I have my lands dotted with little hospital-houses.
If there is no more safety in the mail, inasmuch as letters are getting lost, we shall have to take another route, which is annoying.
I have sent you a registered letter with my request to the captain general and you tell me nothing about it. What is happening then?
With nothing more for the present, we send you many regards and you know we esteem you and love you all.
Regards to Sra. Neneng and love to your children.
Very affectionately yours,
JOSE RIZAL
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