Manila Trozo, Manila, 18 October 1887 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL DEAR BROTHER, The bearer is Mr. Cenón de Salinas, cousin of Pepay, and carries the book that Tomás brought for you. This gentlemen did not want to accept the cost of the book because he says that he has unsettled...
1887
This page presents the letters of José Rizal, carefully arranged in chronological order. Each entry follows the sequence of dates to provide a clear view of his thoughts, experiences, and correspondences as they unfolded through time.
26 September 1887
Manila Trozo, Manila, 26 September 1887 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL Calamba, Laguna DEAR BROTHER, I received your letter and informed of its content, I see that you are very right. I don't know how to describe in this letter the sorrow that I felt when I realized the truth in the...
26 September 1887
Manila Binondo, 26 September 1887 MR. JOSE RIZAL DEAR NAMESAKE, Since you left this capital city, only last night I called again on the amiable family of Mrs. Basilia from whom I learned about your sister's death last Thursday. I realize the sorrow that you feel now...
26 September 1887
Kalamba Calamba, 26 September 1887 Dear Friend, I am sending you a little box, the same one you sent me to Vienna; it then contained my pin. Now it contains 6 cigarettes, sampaguitas and cinnamon and kamuning flowers as well as a Tagalog lighter.[1] Its mechanism is...
23 September 1887
Manila Manila, 23 September 1887 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL MY ESTEEMED JOSÉ, With sorrow we saw a telegram, seemingly from your mother, which says: "Ipia dead, come with Choleng." As they know that Sra. Anday is very credulous, we took it as a joke believing that some naughty...
6 September 1887
Barcelona Blumentritt is translating into German Rizal’s Noli – Inquires about the meaning of sinigang mentioned in the novel – Blumentritt cultivates Balaguer’s friendship for the sake of Rizal – La Publicidad publishes a review of Noli – Mariano Ponce will also...
5 September 1887
Kalamba Happy passage — Grand reception at home — Tears of joy, ten thousand questions all at once and laughter — Oh, my beautiful Motherland! — The Noli raised a great deal of uproar — The General said: “Your novel roused comments; it contains subversive ideas; I...
4 September 1887
Leitmeritz 4 September 1887 To Dr José Rizal Calamba, Province of Laguna de Bay Island of Luzon, Philippines Via Brindisi & Manila My dearest Friend, My most cordial thanks for your kind letter of 27 July. With your letter I received that the same time four copies of...
4 September 1887
Leitmeritz, Austria 4 September 1887 To Dr José Rizal Calamba, Province of Laguna de Bay Island of Luzon, Philippines Via Brindisi & Manila My dearest Friend, An hour after I had dropped into the mail box one of my letters to you I received your letter from Saigon...
27 August 1887
Kalamba Addressed to Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt the original draft of this unfinished letter in German is in the possession of Miss Consuelo López Rizal, a niece of the hero — He gives an account of his arrival in 1887, his first return to his native country — Already...