Calamba Calamba. 27 November 1883 MY DEAR SON, On the 13th of this month we ate at your Aunt Betang's house and on the 14th we slept there, because we three had our group picture taken to send to you so that you will not get sad. We happen to talk about your great...
Rizal without the Overcoat
27 November 1883
Calamba MY DEAREST BROTHER, Don't mind my failure to write you and don't resent it. It is not due to my lack of regard for you but to the sickness that visited us. First of all was the cholera. Because of it we moved to our parents' house where we are now all living...
27 November 1883
Calamba MY DEAREST BROTHER, Don't resent our failure to write you; it is because we lack news. Manolo is already dead. Loleng has already been married after having been deposited here for four months. Cirilo is gravely ill. Policarpio is here with us and is very lazy...
27 November 1883
Calamba 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...
27 November 1883
Calamba DEAR BROTHER, We received your letter of the month of July. When your letter arrived, I was sick with fever, called intermittent fever. I was in bed for almost five months, from April to August. I was very sad, fearing that we may never see each other again....
27 November 1883
Calamba DEAR FRIEND, I wish to tell you that we are here at your house and that Dandoy has been sick for a long time. If you wish to hear Dandoy hum Italian and cough German, come here and you will hear a coughing without equal, surpassing even the cough that you want...
27 November 1883
Calamba DEAR BROTHER, Don't be resentful if I have not written you for a long time. It is only because of my numerous duties. Now I wish to tell you that you have a new nephew (Aristeo). He is very big and is waiting for you anxiously. Perhaps when you return, you...
21 November 1883
Madrid Unfair treatment of Filipino engraver Figueroa in the filing of a professorial chair at the Acadamia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando — Rumors of war between France and Germany — Announcing his graduation from the medical college in 1884 — Some of the food sent...
16 October 1883
Lipa Lipa, 16 October 1883 Mr. Jose Rizal Madrid My Dearest Friend, In my possession are your two letters, the first from Barcelona of 20 July and the second from Madrid of 29 December and I am informed of their contents. I have the greatest pleasure to answer you but...
11 October 1883
Madrid 28 October 1883 MR. FRANCISCO RIZAL MERCADO MY DEAR PARENTS, Though without letters from you to give me news about your health, I know, however, through another person that you are admirably well, which makes me infinitely happy. As to myself, I'm perfectly...