01-066 [Family]
1883.01.19 Bulacan
From: Silvestre Ubaldo and Olimpia Rizal
To: José Rizal
Baliwag silk handkerchiefs for Rizal — The friars hate Rizal for his article published in Diariong Tagalog.
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Bulacan, 19 January 1883
MR. JOSÉ RIZAL
ESTEEMED BROTHER-IN-LAW,
You have not answered two letters of mine. I don’t know if you have received them or not because your address then was Sauco Street, according to your letter when you were in Barcelona. Now they tell me at home that you have not received my letter, for since then, I have not received any letter of yours.
This is my third letter. Until now we are still in Bulacan. Receive the ten Baliwag silk handkerchiefs which are our present to you on your forthcoming birthday. Only I don’t know whom brother-in-law Paciano asked to take them to you. They wrote me that they have already sent them to you.
I wish to tell you that I got sick of cholera on the 31st of December. With God’s mercy I recovered from it soon.
I have heard that the friars are indignant at you for an article you published in Diariong Tagalog, so that you be careful there. It is advisable that you be careful, for it seems that you are in their black list.
Tell us also about your life there.
Find out at Sauco Street if my two letters are there, because that is the address that I put on them.
Your brother-in-law who loves you,
S. UBALDO
P. S.
If possible, do something for us there, so that I shall be returned to Calamba.
Dear Brother,
I wish to let you know I’m here in Bulacan; I’m stout and it seems that the place agrees with me.
We wrote you last October, but you have not answered whether you have received it or not. In it I told you who among our relatives had died, like Gregoria, the daughter of Coya Ticio and Pedro, the son of the Ate Culasa.
OLIMPIA RIZAL