27 April 1889

Madrid

Madrid, 27 April 1889

Mr. Jose Rizal

Paris

ESTEEMED AND DEAR FRIEND,

We thank you for your kindness in accepting the representation of our review[1] in the city, hoping at the same time that you will honor its column with some work of yours which will always be received with approbation.

Perhaps you may not approve of the way we do things here, establishing newspapers in order to make known what is going on over there.[2] You might say that all this is useless and preaching in the desert, so long as radical remedies are not taken. But in the meantime that those remedies are awaited, as it is tiresome to wait, I believe that it is not useless to spend the time writing for periodicals while waiting for the time to do something else.

I hope you will answer me and give me your opinion on what I am writing you about, because, as I have been for a long time away from our country, I do not know what is happening there except what the papers and some compatriots who arrive here bring us.

You know your friend and compatriot esteems you.

S. JUGO VIDAL

P. S.

I send you by mail 25 copies for the propaganda and when you send me a list of subscribers I shall send them directly the succeeding issues from here to save your work and bother. If you need more copies, ask me and I shall send them immediately. If I do not send more, it is to save postage.

The Same

03-389 [Reformists]