01-094 [Family]
1883.11.27 Calamba
From: Josefa Rizal
To: José Rizal
Always thinking of Rizal — Present of handkerchiefs from Catigbac — Regards from friends.
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[Calamba, 27 November 1883)
MY BELOVED BROTHER,
Though we have not written you for a long time, we don’t forget you and we often remember you. What I can tell you is that every Sunday we and Chopeng hold a concert. Perhaps you will receive by the next mail handkerchiefs woven in Lipa sent to you by Catigbac[1]— only six yellow ones, the other six being left here at the house and twelve pink ones. With regards to the money you got from Zamora and uncle Antonio, Father has paid them. Ursula and Victoria are sending you regards and they say that you must not forget them. As to the kundiman[2] you are asking for, there is none in good Tagalog.
JOSEFA RIZAL
[1] Mariano Catigbac or Katigbak, Rizal’s friend.
[2] Kundiman is a plaintive Philippine folksong.