Madrid 15 January 1889 Antonio Luna Dear Rizal, That I have written you that you take charge of collecting the quotas of the subscribers in Barcelona must have been a phenomenal lapsus plumae.[1] The reason is that on the same day, and moments before it, I was writing...
Rizal without the Overcoat
14 January 1889
London London, 14 January 1889 My dear Friend, How long a time that I have not written you! I was very busy and I did not want to write you until after I had finished my work in order to surprise you with a grand news. Now everything is ready. We have formed an...
12 January 1889
Calamba Abuses of the administrator of the Hacienda — Persecution of his sister Lucía — Cheerless town feast — Need for reforms in local government — Need for a book written in Tagalog — La España Oriental, new bilingual periodical — “It is impossible to live in peace...
8 January 1889
London La vision de Fr. Rodriguez is very well written – To be published by the Filipinos at Barcelona – Perhaps del Pilar may be able to put an end to dissidence and rivalry – Board of Directors of La Solidaridad association – Rizal’s letter, read at the banquet,...
6 January 1889
Paris 6 January 1889 Valentin Ventura Mr. Jose Rizal London Dear Friend, On hand is your New Year greeting card and I give you a million thanks for it. Purposely I have not sent you mine because I was thinking of writing you to wish you all kinds of happiness for the...
6 January 1889
London Rizal sends Pomce a post card from London, 6 January 1889 requesting him to make a correction in La vision de Fr. Rodriguez – Soften the harsh statements because Archbishop Payo is dead. * * * 37 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill London 6 January 1889 Jose Rizal...
1 January 1889
Bohol Bohol, Tagbilaran 1st January 1889 MY DEAR BROTHER, From Manila on 6 October of the year that has just ended I wrote you, telling you among other things that by decree of the Superior Government I am banished to this town for being a filibustero and your...
31 December 1888
London 31 December 1888 Jose Rizal Friend Compatriots: Without wishing to parody the sublime words of Christ, I shall say to you nevertheless why I think and feel thus, that wherever two Filipinos meet in the name of the native land and for her welfare, there also I...
28 December 1888
London 28 December 1888 Jose Rizal My dear Friend Naning, Enclosed are the manuscripts. See to it that the La vision de Fr. Rodriguez[1] is published. Use the money from the sale of my remaining books there. Print some 3 or 4000 copies and see to it that it is done as...
25 December 1888
London Data on Ituy in the Annotations to Morga — Two busts modeled by Rizal: Caesar Augustus for Blumentritt and Julius Caesar for Dr. Czepelack — Ponce, Canon, and López Jaena, and Rizal chat about Blumenritt — Personification of kindliness — Christmas eve — Evokes...