“Bonifacio also tells Jacinto that he is currently camped outside the town of Indang with about 1,000 troops, and is only delaying his departure from Cavite because he is waiting for his emissary Antonino Guevara to return from the north and report back to him on what Jacinto and Nakpil thought about his plans for mounting an offensive in Laguna. Bonifacio had dispatched Guevara northwards a week or so earlier, bearing his letter to Emilio Jacinto dated April 16 and with instructions to meet both Jacinto and Nakpil and sound out their views on the military situation. In his brief memoir — which he tellingly dedicates to Emilio Aguinaldo — Guevara mentions neither this particular mission nor, in fact, the names of Bonifacio, Jacinto, and Nakpil at all, a silence which, as O.D. Corpuz sadly notes, “reflects one of the tragedies of the Revolution".
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An Extremely Rare and Historically Important Document Signed by Andres Bonifacio
dated April 15, 1897
11" x 7" (28 cm x 18 cm)
SOLD: PHP 3,737,600
Provenance: The estate of the esteemed scholar and director of the Philippine National Library, Epifanio delos Santos
Literature: Photograph of the original document in Teodoro A. Agoncillo, “The Revolt of the Masses: The story of Bonifacio and the Katipunan” (Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 1956), 187.