Dapitan Dapitan, May 3, 1893 Miss Trinidad Rizal My dear Sister: I am very happy to receive your letter and learn the good news which you tell me in it. What filled me more with happiness was the knowledge that our Mother is in good health and is rejuvenated. Tell her...
1893
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.
April 1893
Manila Manila, April 1893 MR. JOSE RIZAL MY MOST BELOVED IN CHRIST DON JOSE, I received your affectionate letter of 5 April of the present year. A slight indisposition has prevented me from answering it in due time. I am glad that you are getting to like the work of...
5 April 1893
Dapitan No more fish net —- Congratulations to Alfredo —- In good health though earning little —- He misses nothing except the family and his books —- Gifts of jars of mangoes —- His sister should not work too hard and should remember him also —- Holy Week...
31 March 1893
Leitmeritz, Austria 31 March 1893 Professor Ferdinand Blumentritt Dr. Jose Rizal Dapitan, Philippines My very dear Friend, All the letters that I have sent you are until now without a reply. It seems that one anay has eaten them, or they do not allow you to write me...
4 April 1893
Dapitan Dapitan, 4 April 1893 VERY REV. FR. PABLO PESTELLS MY VERY REVEREND FATHER, I received in time your gift, the work of Mgr. Bougand, which I am reading most attentively and with the greatest interest. It is one of the best works of its kind that I have seen as...
7 March 1893
Dapitan Dapitan, March 7, 1893 Misses Josefa and Trinidad Rizal My dear Sisters: I received your affectionate letter and I am glad to know that you are all well like our mother whose life may God preserve. They write me from Manila that you want to go home.[1] It is...
30 March 1893
Dapitan Dapitan, 30 March 1893 MR. JOSE RIZAL Dapitan ESTEEMED SIR Please pardon the liberty that I take to request you to consider the question between us as completely terminated and thereby putting an end to a painful and distressing situation in which I expressed...
15 February 1893
Dapitan In his ostracism he has little correspondence – “They treat me more than humanely” – Roads to civilized forest – “I lack nothing except my freedom, my family, and my books” – About the Tagalog language – Photo of a Subano – Blumentritt and the Ilongot language...
8 February 1893
Dapitan Dapitan, 7 March 1893 MR. MANUEL T. HIDALGO MY DEAR BROTHER-IN-LAW MANENG, I received your two letters of 18 February and 4 March and I am very glad that those from Jolo arrived there without any trouble. I am very sorry that the fish net has not arrived. We...
8 February 1893
Dapitan The price of a small dragnet — In partnership with another — Choleng’s convalescence — If his sisters would visit him — His santol in bloom by March but not the lanzon — Rizal’s hammock will be imitated — Naming his land — Do not send him bancas. * * *...