Barcelona
Nothing disturbs the harmony of the Filipino colony in Barcelona – Insulting article published in La Nacion by Antonio Rodriguez de Ureta against La Solidaridad and its staff – Rizal’s article “La verdad para todos” – Barrantes’ El teatro tagalo deserves to be answered.
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Barcelona, 24 May 1889
MY DEAR RIZAL,
I repeat that Graciano continues to live with us and we are in such good harmony as before. Panganiban and Icasiano moved to another house on account of some insignificant displeasures that they had with Magdalena, the landlady. I have the pleasure to tell you that until now there had occurred nothing to disturb the harmony that reigns in the colony. I am not referring to those who are the very beginning did not want to have anything in common with us
Last night I mailed to you an issue of La Nacion of this city where one Antonia Rodriguez de Ureta addresses an insulting article to La Solidaridad and the Solidarios. She wrote a novelette entitled Pacita, la joven Filipina which I know only by reference.
If you will send me at once the proofs, we shall finish the printing soon.
Good for the article La verdad para todos.
We have not forgotten our promise to you to submit to a kind of arbitration every question that menaces our solidarity. Blumentritt’s byline gives much importance to our periodical. Barrante’s El teatro tagalo deserves to be answered. Blumentritt already had news of this work following its publication; but I did not come across the Ilustracion until today; I found the collection in the Archives.
Yours,
NANING
03-400 [Reformists]