London 9 November 1888 Jose Rizal [Mr. Mariano Ponce] My dear Friend, Many thanks for having sent me the clipping of La Oceania as well as for the letter of our friend L’Aktaw.[1] Upon reading the attacks of the descendants of the Arabs[2] any one would say I am a...
Rizal without the Overcoat
8 November 1888
London 8 November 1888 Jose Rizal My dear Friend Antonio, Some things having happened and finding it difficult to choose a substitute in case I shall be manager – a substitute who must possess all the necessary qualifications – I ask you to excuse me and choose...
8 November 1888
London It is not true that books are lacking in the Philippines — But the majority of them are of a religious and narcotizing nature — The works of Cantú, Laurent, Dumas, Sué, Victor Hugo, Escrich, and Schiller are read — The Indio in general is fond of reading and...
4 November 1888
Madrid 4 November 1888 Evaristo Aguirre My dear Friend, I received you esteemed letter of the 23rd October last. Although you do not say anything about it, I believe you must have received my reply to your previous letter, as you have received my card with my new...
1 November 1888
Barcelona 1 November 1888 Mariano Ponce Mr. José Rizal My very dear Friend, It is now two weeks that I owe you a reply and now I am settling my debt, for circumstances now permit me to do so. I will begin by telling you the name of the theologian who wished to defend...
1 November 1888
London Jesuits and Augustinians no longer want to correspond with Blumentritt — Those who consider that their own opinion is better than that of others are not worthy of our friendship — They have no friends but acolytes — There are not 50 Spaniards like Geler — Vidal...
28 October 1888
Paris 28 October 1888 Valentin Ventura Mr. José Rizal y Mercado London Dear Friend, On hand are your two last letters, always pleasing, dated 2 and 4 instant respectively, which I have read and I am now going to answer them. In your letter of the 4th you say I need...
27 October 1888
Leon 30-2°, Madrid 27 October 1888 Antonio Luna[1] Dear Rizal, I have before me your letter of the 22nd which I am answering. I expected from you such an answer with reference to Llorente and Lete, but your opinion with regard to the management of the periodical,...
19 October 1888
Leon 30-2°, Madrid 19 October 1888 Antonio Luna Dear Rizal, I have thought of writing you for a long time but… sometimes for not knowing your address, at other times for not knowing your whereabouts, the fact is that I have not done it until now that I have your...
15 October 1888
Cebú Cebú 15 October 1888 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL 37 Chalcot Crescent, Primrose Hill, N.W. London MY DEAR BROTHER, As I have told you in my previous letter of the 6th instant, I am banished as a preventive measure by decree of the Superior Government to the town of Tagbilaran,...