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12 RIZAL BEYOND THE GRAVEdente, as Father Angel Bachiller has forcefully demonstrated inthe Graphic issue of June 29, 1933, leaves no doubt as to theauthorship of Rizal. It might be objected that the authorshipis Rizal's but that the writing is not necessarily his. Indeed,but whose writing is it? Besides, the story of its having beenfound in an "alcohol stove", given by Rizal to his sister, the ignoranceof the recipient of the priceless content of the stove untillater date, the remark of Rizal that "there is something inside," 1°in English, to elude the suspicious vigilante of the Civil Guards,all point to the authorship of Rizal as to the writing. There isnothing, however, in moral, nor in internal evidente, as well asin handwriting that is contrary to this presumption. The "Defensa"is clearly bis, in style, spirit, and intention, for he was thenunder trial. This document carne from the hands of Lete, anassociate of Rizal, and it is now in the National Library. Dr.Jose Abad Lopez has the "Imitacion de Cristo" that was givento Josephine Bracken according to Dr. Castor T. Surla in hisarticle in La Vanguardia on January 3, 1933. Facsimiles of thefarewell to his mother and of the book given to Josephine are alsofound in Craig's "Life and Labor of Dr. Jose Rizal."" The twobooks given to his sisters, Trinidad and Josefa, are in their respectiveowners. The letter to Andrade was also reproduced veryfinely in Retafia's "Vida y Escritos del Dr. Jose Rizal." 12PHYSICAL CONDITIONS—The kind of paper of this discovereddocument, Figure I, is the same as that of the "Defensa".They bear exactly the same watermark of "Hijo de J. Jover y Serra"placed quite uniformly across the folded sheet. The other watersignsare exactly the same. The crumpled and soiled edges arequite alike in both documents. They measure equally in lengthand breadth. The color of the paper is ahnost the same, perhapsbecause that kind of paper is not easily faded or tinted withyellow. Only in the case of the "Defensa", there are no holesmade by bookworms unlike that of the document in question.Certainly, these physical conditions are genuine marks of "authenticityas to the age" of the paper. There is then no questionas to this rnatter of age of the paper, but that does not yet bear allthe phases of the question. The "Ultimo Adios" was written10 Craig, A., Life and Labor of Dr. Jose Rizal, p. 240; Retana, W., op.cita p. 421.11 Op. cit. p. 421.12 Op. cit. pp. 392-393