Leitmeritz
27 March 1887
Mr. José Rizal
71-III Jaegerstrasse, Berlin
Esteemed Friend,
A thousand thanks for your magnificent book[1] about which I shall speak more lengthily later, because now I’m dispirited, my wife and children Fritz and Dolores being sick with catarrh and my youngest child swallowed an apricot stone which has not been removed yet.
An embrace.
Faithfully yours,
F. Blumentritt
02-210 [Blumentritt V.1]
[1] Noli me tangere, Berlin, 1887, first edition.