Paris
Rizal regrets Panganiban’s illness – He is a very useful man – Rizal will be wandering for a while – Filipinos at Paris await impatiently La Solidaridad – Rizal will try to talk to Roxas in Paris – He cannot find his articles “El Filibusterismo” and “La opinion en Filipinas”.
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111 Rue de St. Lazare, Paris
1 July 1889
[Mr. Mariano Ponce]
MY DEAR NANING,
I am very sorry to know that Friend Panganiban is sick, and according to Blumentritt, with hemoptysis. It is necessary that he take very good care of himself, for, aside from humanitarian considerations and looking at the selfish side, he is a very useful man and very necessary to our cause, for it is obvious that he is very hard-working. Therefore, I would tell him to lay aside now all his work, take arsenic in very small doses, as I did in Berlin, take baths in the sea, etc. He is a man of very good inclinations and we would lose much if he becomes seriously ill.
As I shall be wandering for a few days, for the present address your correspondence to 45 Rue de Maubeuge where Ventura lives. Please tell this to our friends.
Here they are waiting impatiently La Solidaridad for 30 June. Blumentritt is awaiting for his defense of the Noli. He wishes you to send him 25 copies. You already know that I pay for the postage.
Tell me how the periodical La Solidaridad is getting along, for here we earnest desire its progress.
It seems that Roxas is coming to Paris. I shall try to have an interview with him.
Tell Plaridel that however much I have looked for my articles, El Filibusterismo and La opinion en Filipinas I cannot find them. Llorente surely has the 1st and somebody in Barcelona the 2nd.
How are things there?
Regards to all.
Yours,
RIZAL
03-416 [Reformists]