Paris
Paris, 26 May 1889
Mr. Mariano Ponce
2-3 Rambla Canaletas
Barcelona, Spain
MY FRIEND,
Enclosed is my reply to Barrantes.[1] Have it printed if you believe it is worthwhile. Put my name or Laong Laan. Tell Plaridel and Jaena that they may take care of shortening it or striking out what is superfluous that they do not like it. I assume the responsibility for everything.
I have sent the issues to Blumentritt. Never again write anything on the newspapers; they may find me.
Send many copies of Blumentritt’s review of Noli me tangere.
If you are coming, I am going to pay for your entrance ticket to the Exposition.
Rizal
03-403 [Reformists]
[1] Rizal’s reply to Barrantes’ Teatro tagalo was published in La Solidaridad , 15 June 1889. An English version appears in the volume entitled Political and Historical W ritings of Jose Rizal , Edition 1961.