London London 17 September 1888 My dear Friend, One week has elapsed and I have not received a letter from you; I hope you are not sick. Day after tomorrow I shall finish copying the Morga and immediately I shall begin annotating it. I have already read Pigafetta and...
1888
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.
30 September 1888
London 30 September 1888 My dear Friend, I have to thank you very much for your letter as well as for the books, newspapers, and other things that you have sent me. The article which you published in La Publicidad in which you devote affectionate words to me has been...
4 September 1888
Paris 4 September 1888 My dear Friend, I am here on visit and probably I shall make a trip to Spain because I have received bad news from home. I will tell you what I have read in the Hong Kong Telegraph: A correspondent writes from Manila under date the 21st instant...
9 September 1888
Paris EpVb there is a letter from September 9, 1889 from rue de Maubeuge where Rizal references baptism of Bibi: “La hija de Luna fue bautizada hoy. Se llama Maria de la Paz.” An impostor’s letter to Blumentritt — “Could it be a bait?” — “The attack against you proves...
25 August 1888
Barcelona 25 August 1888 Mr. Jose Rizal My very dear Friend, By this mail I am sending you a registered package of three copies of Noli me tangere, as you ask me in your letter of the 18th instant. I am sending you besides the last part of Fr. Font’s analytical...
26 August 1888
London Rizal will annotate Morga’s history of the Philippines — What of the ethnographic map of Mindanao? The book The Chinese Portrayed by Themselves by Tseng-Ki-Tong — The Noli in Spanish “in order to awaken the spirit of my native land from its slumber.” * * * 37...
18 August 1888
London 18 August 1888 My dear Friend Many thanks for your kindness in having sent me the analytical criticism of the blessed Fr. Font. What a father and what a criticism. If the author of the novel had to be responsible for the sayings of his characters, holy God, to...
18 August 1888
London London 18 August 1888 My dear Friend, I have not read a book like that of Weber for a long time until now and I owe you this opportunity. I have long wished to read in London a philosopher who was written impartially on religion. Those that I had read before...
13 August 1888
London I am sincerely your obedient servant, JOSE RIZAL 03-322 [Reformists]
16 August 1888
Barcelona 16 August 1888 Mr. Jose Rizal My very esteemed Friend and Countryman, Enclosed I am sending you a copy of the analytical portion of Fr. Font’s censure of Noli me tangere whose conclusion you will receive shortly. For some weeks I have not heard anything from...