Kalamba Calamba, 26 September 1887 Dear Friend, I am sending you a little box, the same one you sent me to Vienna; it then contained my pin. Now it contains 6 cigarettes, sampaguitas and cinnamon and kamuning flowers as well as a Tagalog lighter.[1] Its mechanism is...

Manila Manila, 23 September 1887 MR. JOSÉ RIZAL MY ESTEEMED JOSÉ, With sorrow we saw a telegram, seemingly from your mother, which says: "Ipia dead, come with Choleng." As they know that Sra. Anday is very credulous, we took it as a joke believing that some naughty...

Barcelona Blumentritt is translating into German Rizal’s Noli – Inquires about the meaning of sinigang mentioned in the novel – Blumentritt cultivates Balaguer’s friendship for the sake of Rizal – La Publicidad publishes a review of Noli – Mariano Ponce will also...

Kalamba Happy passage — Grand reception at home — Tears of joy, ten thousand questions all at once and laughter — Oh, my beautiful Motherland! — The Noli raised a great deal of uproar — The General said: “Your novel roused comments; it contains subversive ideas; I...

Leitmeritz 4 September 1887 To Dr José Rizal Calamba, Province of Laguna de Bay Island of Luzon, Philippines Via Brindisi & Manila My dearest Friend, My most cordial thanks for your kind letter of 27 July. With your letter I received that the same time four copies of...

Leitmeritz, Austria 4 September 1887 To Dr José Rizal Calamba, Province of Laguna de Bay Island of Luzon, Philippines Via Brindisi & Manila My dearest Friend, An hour after I had dropped into the mail box one of my letters to you I received your letter from Saigon...

Kalamba Addressed to Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt the original draft of this unfinished letter in German is in the possession of Miss Consuelo López Rizal, a niece of the hero — He gives an account of his arrival in 1887, his first return to his native country — Already...

Leitmeritz 24 August 1887 My dearest Friend, Our mutual and noble friend John Nordmann is no longer among the living. He was operated on at the Wiedner Hospital in Vienna and there he died suddenly and unexpectedly. His death caused deep sorrow in all Austria and...

Manila Manila, 9 August 1887 Mr. Jose Rizal Calamba My dear Friend Pepe, Barely have I known of your arrival I ran out quickly without losing time to look you up; but I did not have the pleasure of finding you at your house, for, according to what they told me, you...

Manila Manila, 8 August 1887 JOSE RIZAL CALAMBA MY ESTEEMED FRIEND, Last night I learned that you arrived and this morning I looked for your house. For not knowing where you are lodged I did not have the pleasure of embracing you. But guessing that you must have...