Barcelona In Barcelona the Filipinos are willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of their country – Enthusiasm for the work of Rizal – “Those who criticize acts of heroism and self-denial deserve eternal condemnation in the history of the motherland” – Awaiting...
Rizal without the Overcoat
16 June 1888
London Larra, the best Spanish prose writer of the century – All the works of great men are worthy of study – Rizal prefers the complete, not selected, works of Larra – In Madrid, where Rizal had many friends, his work could not even get in – Condemnation of his work...
13 June 1888
Barcelona Barcelona, 13 June 1888 My dear Friend, At this very moment I have the pleasant surprise of receiving your letter of the 5th of this month. I suppose that our friend [Rogers] has not received your letter, as I see him almost every day at the Café, and he has...
12 June 1888
London He didn't find letters from home upon arrival — His trip from Liverpool to London — He boards with an English family — Sunday at London is boresome. * * * 37 Chalcot Crescent, Prhnrose Hill, N.W. London, 12 June 1888 On my arrival here I found some letters of...
8 June 1888
London London, June 8, 1888 To PASTOR ULLMER I have received your kind and cherished letter of March 12, which was forwarded to me from the Philippines. I left my country the third of February. I travelled in China, Japan and the United States, and reached here at the...
5 June 1888
London 5 June 1888 Mr. Mariano Ponce My dear Friend, From America I wrote you a letter through Mr. Rogers, the only countryman whose address I can remember. Undoubtedly you have not received it, inasmuch as you have not answered me. In that letter I expressed to you...
2 June 1888
London Rizal cannot address Blumentritt familiarly because he is elderly and respectable — The Filipinos are very courteous to their parents — The friars addressed us familiarly, considering us their inferiors — Rizal complimented with a tea party by Dr. Rost — They...
30 May 1888
Paris 30 May 1888 Mr. Jose Rizal My dear friend Rizal, I received your letter from London and I congratulate you sincerely on your arrival at the capital without mishap or vexation, except leaving behind your family; for, when you wrote me that you were going back to...
24 May 1888
City of Rome City of Rome, 24 May 1888 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, I begin writing this letter on board with the intention of finishing it on land when I shall already be installed at London. We left New York on 16 instant on the second largest ship in the world,...
30 April 1888
San Francisco 30 April 1888 Dear Friend: We are anchored in this port under quarantine. We don’t know how long it will last, although there are no sick passengers aboard and the ship did not come from a filthy port. The reason for this is that we have 643 Chinese...