Paris
15 May 1889
[Mr. Mariano Ponce]
DEAR NANING,
Enclosed are the corrected pages; they can be published now. The editor’s foreword which I place at the beginning should be published, for Blumentritt wishes it thus.[1]
This friend is not coming before the end of July.
The enclosed manuscript of the funny article Por telefono[2] is to be published separately. I am not asking its publication in La Solidaridad for it will take away the periodical’s seriousness. It is too comical. If its publication will not cost more than 10 pesos, I prefer to publish it in the form of a little booklet.
With nothing more for now.
Yours,
RIZAL
05-393 [100 Letters]
[1] Blumentritts’ review of Noli me tangere with an introduction by Rizal.
[2] A satirical article about the Augustinian friar Salvador Font signed by “Dimas Alang”, a pseudonym of Rizal, of which 2,000 copies were printed at Barcelona in 1889 for ten pesos.