London
28 December 1888
Jose Rizal
My dear Friend Naning,
Enclosed are the manuscripts. See to it that the La vision de Fr. Rodriguez[1] is published. Use the money from the sale of my remaining books there. Print some 3 or 4000 copies and see to it that it is done as quickly as possible. Add or delete something.
I already sent 25 pesetas to the Asociacion Hispano-Filipina in Madrid, so that do not send anything more for me. If I have some money remaining there, give five duros to Graciano, for the bill that I intended to send him for the New Year I had to send to Madrid, as they sent me a receipt for my quota.
I arrived here well; they were expecting me.
I am working like a good Filipino. Tomorrow I am going to write Rogers, because I have had no time until now, having been busy with Fr. Rodriguez. But this will be the last time.
Give my regards to all our compatriots; I will not write any more here their names but let them know that I remember them all.
I wish to write to Canon.
Yours,
Rizal
03-341 [Reformists]
[1] Rizal’s reply to the pamphlets by Fr. Jose Rodriguez, an Augustinian friar, attacking the Noli me tangere and its author. Written in satirical vein.