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2 June 1888
Dr. Reinhold Rost and family tendered in their house a tea
party in Rizal’s honor. Rizal saw in the Rost’s house a good
Filipiniana library. (Dr. Reinhold Rost, a book lover, librarian of
the Minister of Foreign Relations of England and famous Malayalogist,
had especial predilections for Rizal whom he used to call Hombre
perla).
23 June 1888
He thought of publishing the second edition of the
Noli Me Tangere with the illustrations of Juan Luna and with slight
changes. He wanted to correct the typographical errors and the
erroneous citation of Shakespeare which should be that of Schiller.
27 June 1888
In a letter, he requested Mariano Ponce to send more
Copies of the Noli Me Tangere to the Philippines. He told Ponce that
the question of writing with more or less literature is just
secondary; what is essential is to think and to feel rightly, to
work for an object and the pen will take charge of transmitting the
ideas.
9 July 1888
Rizal asked Pof. Blumentritt for advice whether or
not to answer Senator vida who denounced him (Rizal) in the Senate
in Madrid as an intimate friendof Prince Bismarch, and his novel as
anti-Catholic, preaching protestant and socialist.
12 July 1888
The Hispano-Filipino association was reorganized by
the Filipinos in Madrid and by theSpaniards sympathizing the cause
of the filipinos, headed by Sr. Morayta.
26 July 1888
It was decided to write in the press and artile
which would teach Senator Vida courtesy and honesty. Earlier, he had
written a letter to the Senator in Madrid whose answer he was
waiting for.
27 July 1888
Rizal wrote a letter to Mariano Ponce (Naning)
telling the latter of his experience in his travel Manila via
Hongkong, Japan and North America, and the people he met in Hongkong,
who he said, are enthusiastic about the Noli and are studious and
patriots.
16 August 1888
Rizal was admitted to the reading room of the
British Museum of London.
August 1888
He was busy with the Morga. He thought of copying
the whole book and annotating it for publication as his gift to the
Filipinos. Dr. Antonio Regidor, one of the exiles of the 1872 event,
promised to be his capitalist. Along with the Morga he wanted also
to publish Blumentritt’s "Tribes of Mindanao" including
some new documents which he found in the British Museum.
18 August 1888
With the intention of writing the continuation of
his first novel, Rizal asked Mariano Ponce in a letter to send him
two or more copies of the Noli. Rizal planned t hav a picture taken
: one copy to be sent to Ponce and the other to be included in the
publication of the second novel. |
