Madrid Madrid, 27 June 1886 MR. JOSE RIZAL DEAR PEPE, I received your letter and I'm informed of its content. I immediately looked for money and fortunately I found some as it happened that my friend had money. The ring is pawned already. I should like to know if this...
Rizal without the Overcoat
9 June 1886
Wilhelmsfeld Wilhemsfeld,[1] 9 June 1886 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, Since the beginning of January until now, I haven’t received either a letter or a draft, though according to my calculation I ought to receive money a month ago, for what I have would barely last...
28 May 1886
Madrid Madrid, 28 May 1886 Mr. Jose Rizal Dear Pepe, I read your urgent letter with the greatest pleasure and it made me very happy to know that you are very well and in good health. I no longer remember if I have given you my new address. I believe that I indicated...
23 May 1886
Calamba He sends him money — Paciano is planning to abandon Pansol — Asks Rizal to send him a remedy for malaria. * * * Calamba, 23 May 1886 DEAR BROTHER, Enclosed you will receive a draft for ₱188 against the Hong Kong Bank, in accordance to what you told me in your...
24 April 1886
Heidelgberg I promised to write you in case I should decide to remain in the country for a few weeks. Since you have had the kindness to secure a boarding-house for me, on Sunday evening, if the weather is fine, I shall be in Wilhelmsfeld. I have been told that the...
20 March 1886
Heidelberg 20 March 1886 MY DEAR PARENTS BROTHERS, Winter is over and this is now spring. Here the changes of the season are greatly appreciated for a great contrast is noted in the change. After the cold of a severe winter, after so much ice and so much snow and so...
11 March 1886
Germany Germany, Thursday, 11 March 1886 MISS TRINIDAD RIZAL MY DEAR SISTER Since I left our country I have received only four or five lines written by your hand, one or two insignificant news about you and nothing more. I don't know how you are and I cannot imagine...
11 March 1886
Heidelberg 11 March 1886 MY DEAR PARENTS AND BROTHERS, As I announced to you in my previous letter, I’m now in this new house, in front of the University itself, and in which I intend to remain all the time I have to be in this city, until I can go to Berlin, which...
2 March 1886
Madrid He deplores the lack of fellowship among the Filipinos at Madrid since Rizal left – Calls the German students’ duel “semi-barbaric” – A painting—Spoliarium by Juan Luna—bought by the government of Barcelona. * * * Madrid, 2 March 1886 Mr. Jose Rizal...
2 March 1886
Madrid Madrid, 2 March 1886 Mr. Jose Rizal Heidelberg, Germany My esteemed Friend, I received first your letter of 26 January written in Paris, but as you said in it that you were leaving for Germany and would write me again from your new residence, I did not answer...