Rizal addresses the letter to Maria Rizal and sends a prescription for a minor ailment of her son Moris. There is a sense that Rizal has resigned himself somewhat to his fate in Dapitan, perhaps helped along by the arrival of ‘Miss B’ (his affectionately formal name for Josephine Bracken) earlier that year. He writes, “If Father is coming here I wish he would buy me a velocipede (the new-fangled precursor of the bicycle.) If they will come here and can endure our situation, I would not wish to leave this place anymore and I would just engage in farming so long as they live.”
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Very Rare and Important Letter from José Rizal to His Sister Maria Rizal
signed by José Rizal
dated Dapitan, 28 August 1895
dated Dapitan, 28 August 1895
written in Tagalog
two sheets, with writing on three sides
pen and ink on graph paper
two sheets, with writing on three sides
pen and ink on graph paper
8 1/4 “ x 5 1/4” (21 x 13 cm)
PHP 1,000,000
Provenance:
From José Rizal (1861-1896) to Maria Rizal (1859-1945), from
thence by descent to her only daughter Encarnacion Cruz
Literature: Letters of Jose Rizal to His Family (1876-1896), José Rizal with a foreword by Alejandro R. Roces, National Historical Institute, 1993. Pages 401, 402