Madrid
10 December 1889
DEAR RIZAL,
I intended to write you yesterday but it was impossible. Now I do it replying to all your letters.
You already know what happened to the affair. Before I left I submitted it to the decision of a court of honor formed by the Press Syndicate of Barcelona. I believe it must have already decided it and soon we shall know it. It is necessary to file the complaint. You already know that, on account of Mir’s denunciation, the court has searched Ponce. Consequently, it is necessary that we should not let him alone, so that he would not have imitators.
I believe also that you ought to send immediately funds to Barcelona. For correspondence alone from 40 to 50 pesetas had been spent and besides it is necessary to compliment the grateful stomachs who had taken part in the melee.
In view of the refusal of El Diluvio to publish the last article sent to it, as soon as we receive the decision, here we shall issue an extra number.
I am very grateful to the colony here, Barcelona, and elsewhere. Though the question was a personal one only, they have taken an interest in it and had contributed with all their efforts.
To those of Barcelona I owe much, very much – to Graciano, your cousin, and to everybody.
Yours who embrace you,
ANTONIO
Regards from Lauro, Aguilera, and Roxas.
03-476 [Reformists]