"I hate the falsehoods of life, and I only love those who have the courage to live in gratitude and truth"
.
(Letter to Fernando Figueredo, New York, January 15, 1892)
FEBRUARY 3RD
On
February 3, 1877,
José Martí wrote a letter to Manuel Mercado, and talked about his possibility of traveling to Guatemala or returning to Mexico.
He points out: “… I foresee on my trip to Guatemala, now that I see it up close, a useless sacrifice;
but I taste the pleasure of sacrifice”.
On that date of
1882
, he published his Constant Section in La Opinión Nacional of Caracas.
The subjects addressed by Martí are the political news in Japan, the highly valued books that remain in the ancestral homes, and the introduction of the Australian pitchury in England.
From New York, write on a day like this in
1888
to Néstor Ponce de León.
He expresses his gratitude for having invited him to attend a party of the Hispano-American Literary Society, but he makes it clear that the activity will be better without his presence to prevent this from being used as a pretext by the enemies of Cuba to slander the Society and present it as a simple instrument of the revolutionary Cubans.
In
1893
, from New York, Martí wrote another letter to Néstor Ponce de León.
He points out that he is still sick, but that he would get up from the bed where he spends the day, to go and give his essential class at night.
On
February 3, 1894
, appears in Patria, a work in which Martí qualifies Fermín Valdés Domínguez as the "indomitable and useful Creole in whom, in one of the most dramatic and pure moments of our land, embodied and throbbed the soul Cuban.”