Madrid
22 May 1889
MR. JOSE RIZAL
MY DISTINGUISHED FRIEND,
Enclosed I send you the receipts for Messrs. Ventura, Luna, Abarca, and Trinidad, together with yours; and I thank you for the bother and the sacrifices you are making for the periodical.
It would be a good thing if now and then you could send us an account of the Exposition that is being held there, so long as this would not cause you any trouble, because I believe that no one better than you can enlighten the readers of La Vanguardia about the marvels of that Exposition.
I am very grateful to our countrymen in Barcelona, especially friends M. del Pilar and M. Ponce, who are generously assisting me in the administrative negotiations, for in fact I am completely ignorant of the course that I should follow. This means to say that I have found support only from you who are outside and not among those here who, excepting Gomez, no one of them absolutely dares to write a line, whether it is because they believe any agitation in the press is useless or because they are afraid. I cannot understand the disunity that exists here among Filipinos, knowing as they do that, united, we can do something. They try through all means to separate one form another.
Your friend who esteems you,
JUGO
03-399 [Reformists]