Madrid Unfair treatment of Filipino engraver Figueroa in the filing of a professorial chair at the Acadamia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando — Rumors of war between France and Germany — Announcing his graduation from the medical college in 1884 — Some of the food sent...
Letters
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.
16 October 1883
Lipa Lipa, 16 October 1883 Mr. Jose Rizal Madrid My Dearest Friend, In my possession are your two letters, the first from Barcelona of 20 July and the second from Madrid of 29 December and I am informed of their contents. I have the greatest pleasure to answer you but...
11 October 1883
Madrid 28 October 1883 MR. FRANCISCO RIZAL MERCADO MY DEAR PARENTS, Though without letters from you to give me news about your health, I know, however, through another person that you are admirably well, which makes me infinitely happy. As to myself, I'm perfectly...
15 September 1883
Manila Manila, 15 September 1883 MR. JOSE RIZAL MY OLD FRIEND AND DEAR NAMESAKE, If I do not continually inquire about you at Tomasina House where I know they receive letters from you every mail, undoubtedly I would have been surprised by these words which you put at...
11 September 1883
San Miguel, Madrid Vacillating between the law course and the philosophy and letters course — Madrid summer disagrees with him — Discusses the future prospects of Tacio and Dandoy, two Calamba youths — Filipinos at Madrid — Comparing Filipino and Japanese students —...
29 July 1883
Manila 29 July 1883 MR. JOSE RIZAL Y MERCADO MY VERY DISTINGUISHED FRIEND AND FUTURE COMPADRE, Through the kindness of my never sufficiently esteemed Compadre Pepe,[1] I received the expression of your affection that from that adorned and aristocratic city you had the...
20 July 1883
Rue de Rennes, Paris 20 July 1883 MY DEAR BROTHER, I received your letter, I have read it, and I thank you for what you tell me for various reasons. I was going to give you in this letter my little descriptions of Paris but as I have no time and I have to answer first...
21 June 1883
Paris Paris, 21 June 1883 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, As I informed you in my previous letter written at Madrid a day before my departure, I’m now at Paris — Hotel de Paris, 37 Rue de Maubeuge — since the morning of the 17th, Sunday. My trip was one of the best and...
26 May 1883
Calamba Sugar crop — Rizal asks permission to go to Paris — A portrait of Rizal at Leonor's house painted by Resurrección Hidalgo — Death of Father Leoncio López, Calamba's parish priest – Departure of the police lieutenant — Town fiesta of Biñan — Incident with the...
14 May 1883
Calamba 14 May 1883 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL MADRID DEAR JOSÉ, Though I have not answered your letter for a long time, I hope you will pardon me, I suppose that you understand the amount of work here now. Another reason is that I have no news to tell you except that our life is...