? Paris
Paris, March 1889
[Mr. Mariano Ponce]
MY DEAR NANING,
Enclosed I send you the corrected proof. I am in great haste because I am going to the Museum.
Can you make what is toward the end instead of bastard type, cursive type?
I received La Defense de Corcuera,[1] but I intend to publish it not in that way but make a big book about it.
Communicate with Llorente about [the] La Solidaridad association that they have founded in Madrid. See if you can unite and help those over there to join together.
Regards to all, especially to Plaridel.
Yours,
LAONG LAAN.
02-378 [Blumentritt V.1]
[1] Ponce asked Rizal to write an introduction to this work, which unfortunately this translator has not seen. One of the Spanish governors-general was Sebastian Hurtado de Corcuera, 1635-1644. He made enemies among the religious orders. When he resigned, his enemies prevented his return to Spain and succeeded to have him imprisoned in Fort Santiago for five years. Upon his release, by way of reward, he was governor of the Canary Islands.