Hong Kong From: Jose Rizal To: Mr. Macleod Rizal thanks Mr. Macleod for the kindness he and his wife showed his sister Lucía. * * * Hong Kong, 21 December 1891 MR. MACLEOD MY DEAR SIR, My sister Lucia, who has just arrive at this island, has told me so many times of...

Letter of Rizal’s mother to the Queen — Money order for the honorarium of the lawyer of the tenants — Asks again for the books he ordered through Rizal — Power of attorney for the prosecution of those responsible for his banishment or for the investigation of Weyler —...

Emuy Emuy, 11 December 1891 MR. JOSE RIZAL Hong Kong MY VERY DEAR FRIEND, Though of very little value, I will tell you what my fellow passenger Montero learned from Father Francisco when he went to the convent or procuracion to bid him goodbye. Vicent [Vicente]...

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...

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...

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...

Hong Kong Basa’s account of Rizal’s books for March 1889 – December 1891 * * * MR. JOSE RIZAL, HONG KONG TO THE UNDERSIGNED, DR Debit Credit 1889 4 March For one draft, his acct., London . . . . . P100.00 1890 4 March “ freight of one box of books . . . 9.76 8 March “...

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...

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...

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...