London A brother-in-law of Rizal banished to Bohol — Without due process of law — The beginning of reprisals? — Booklets for and against Rizal sent to Blumentritt — Geler’s book says many truths — “And if we cannot take revenge, our children and our grandchildren will...
Rizal without the Overcoat
12 October 1888
London Rizal reading the old sources of Philippine history — He will not leave London until he has explained all the books and manuscripts relating to our country — “Let Desengaños say what he wants . . . Who among Filipinos and Spaniards wrote the first insulting...
12 October 1888
London Father Vicente Garcia’s courage is inspiring – The Noli is being analyzed critically in the Philippines – Rizal: “My work has defects.” – Too engaged to manage a periodical – Intensive research in the history of the Philippines at the British Museum to prepare...
6 October 1888
Barcelona 6 October 1888 Mr. Jose Rizal My very dear Friend, I have received your pleasing letter of the 30th of last month. You have nothing to thank me for. One who is only complying with his duty does not deserve gratitude. Moreover, what I do is so little that I...
3 October 1888
Paris Paris, 3 October 1888 Mr. Jose Rizal Dear Rizal: I received in Houlgate your letter with the receipt enclosed. I am very sorry for what is happening to your family in Manila. This revenge is mean and very detrimental to your brother and brother-in-law. I’ll be...
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...
17 September 1888
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...
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...
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...
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...