Hong Kong 10 December 1891 Jose Rizal My Brother, Just a few lines to inform you that my father, brother, and a brother-in-law have arrived here fleeing from Manila. My aged mother, blind, is in the hands of the Spaniards! Mr. Basa is sending you a handkerchief and...
1891
This page presents the letters of José Rizal, carefully arranged in chronological order. Each entry follows the sequence of dates to provide a clear view of his thoughts, experiences, and correspondences as they unfolded through time.
9 December 1891
Hong Kong How are you and your family in Calamba? — His father, Paciano, and Bestre are well — If they send him his books and the letters in the possession of Brother Isidoro — To establish an agricultural colony in Borneo — Would like to operate on his mother’s eyes...
1 December 1891
Hong Kong Hong Kong, 1 December 1891 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, I'm following step by step the painful Calvary that you are going through. Don't be afraid for I work and work. If you could let me rejoin you there, how happy I would be. Perhaps everything may...
5 December 1891
Singapore Singapore, 5 December 1891 MR. JOSE RIZAL Hong Kong MY DEAR SIR AND FRIEND: I have before me your letter of 26 November and I am very glad that you have arrived safely at that Colony. I thank you for forwarding the letter of our mutual friend Luna. There is...
26 November 1891
Hong Kong 26 November 1891 MR. MANUEL CAMUS[1] Singapore MY DEAR SIR AND FRIEND: We arrived here without any trouble on the 20th of this month and here you have me at your disposal. Enclosed is a letter to you of our friend Luna, a letter that I did not know I had...
December 1891
Calamba Pi y Margall against Hidalgo’s deportation — Asking about letters he previously sent Rizal – Asking for books on French, English, and German grammar — Appeal to the Queen — “If we are not heard we will ask Queen Victoria of England for protection in the name...
17 November 1891
Manila Manila, 17 November 1891 MR. JOSE RIZAL DEAR FRIEND, I am first to admit that my previous letters were deficient and until a certain point incongruous for having been written under nervous excitement. So I beg you not to mind the defect of its style but the...
1 November 1891
Manila Manila, 1 November 1891 MR. DIMAS ALANG[1] OUR DEAR BROTHER, I transmit to you literally the decisions of the Board of Directors which met in a plenary session: “In view of the letter of Brother Dimas Alang of 14 August last, this committee has agreed on the...
3 November 1891
Manila Manila, 3 November 1891 MR. JOSE RIZAL DEAR FRIEND, As a continuation of my former letter dated 1st instant I must tell you that the things that are happening here are unspeakable. As I told you in my first letter an order was being given to Marcelo to deliver...
October 1891
? Europe Fragment of a letter in Tagalog signed “Laong Laan”, a Rizal pseudonym – Written in metaphorical language: “It is true that the times are bad, the ground is not fertile, there are many locusts, frequent typhoons, and the wind blows away the seeds; but with...