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https://www.univie.ac.at/ksa/apsis/aufi/rizal/rbcorr.htm
http://www.heritageartcenter.com/2011/09/writings-of-jose-rizal-vol-ii-part-2.html
How it Started 110 Years ago
50 Selected Letters between Rizal and Blumentritt
Courtesy of National Historical Institute, Manila

Rizal: 31 July, 1886 (Heidelberg)

Rizal: 16 August, 1886 (Leipzig)
Rizal: 22 August, 1886 (Leipzig)
Rizal: 2 October, 1886 (Leipzig)
Rizal: 4 November, 1886 (Berlin)
Blumentritt: 14 November, 1886 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 22 November, 1886 (Berlin)
Blumentritt: 23 November, 1886 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 28 November, 1886 (Berlin)
Rizal: 9 December, 1886 (Berlin)
Rizal: 30 December, 1886 (Berlin)
Blumentritt: 24 January, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 16 February, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 9 March, 1887 (Berlin)
Blumentritt: 27 March, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 27 March, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 13 April, 1887 (Berlin)
Rizal: 20 May, 1887 (Vienna)
Rizal: 24 May, 1887 (Vienna)
Rizal: 26 May, 1887 (Salzburg)
Rizal: 29 May, 1887 (Munich)
Rizal: 31 May, 1887 (Stuttgart)

Rizal: 3 June, 1887 (Basel)

Rizal: 13 June, 1887 (Geneva)
Blumentritt: 25 July, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 24 August, 1887 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 30 April, 1888 (San Francisco)
Rizal: 23 June, 1888 (London)
Rizal: 14 November, 1888 (London)
Rizal: 25 December, 1888 (London)
Rizal: 14 January, 1889 (London)
Rizal: 31 January, 1889 (London)
Rizal: 4 June, 1889 (Paris)
Rizal: 17 April, 1890 (Brussels)
Blumentritt: 29 September, 1890 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 15 February, 1891 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 26 April, 1891 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 20 June, 1891 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 23 August, 1891 (Gand)
Blumentritt: 19 March, 1892 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 16 July, 1892 (Leitmeritz)
Blumentritt: 15 October, 1893 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 19 December, 1893 (Dapitan)
Rizal: 31 July, 1894 (Dapitan)
Rizal: 15 January, 1895 (Dapitan)
Rizal: 20 November, 1895 (Dapitan)
Blumentritt: New Years Greetings, 1895 (Leitmeritz)
Rizal: 5 April, 1896 (Dapitan)
Rizal: 28 September, 1896 (en route to Spain)
Rizal: 29 December, 1896 (Fort Santiago, Manila)
The complete correspondence has been published by the

National Historial Institute

P.O. Box 3398 Manila, Philippines
Translated into English by Encarnacin Alzona (1992)

Randomly chosen letters

211. Rizal, Fort Santiago, Manila, 29 December 1896

Farewell of the Martyr to his favorite friend

Prof. Fernando Blumentritt

My dear Brother,
When you receive this letter, I shall be dead
by then.

Tomorrow at seven, I shall be shot; but I am

innocent of the crime of rebellion.

I am going to die with a tranquil conscience.

Adieu, my best, my dearest friend, and never
think ill of me!
Fort Santiago, 29 December 1896
Jos Rizal

Regards to the whole family, to Sra. Rosa,

Lolena, Conradito, and Federico.

I leave a book for you as my remembrance

7. Rizal, Berlin, 22 November l886

Waitz, Anthropology of Primitive Peoples Unity of the human race - Translation of

Schiller's and Andersen's stories sent to his

nephew. - I will make use of the Royal Library
for the study of the history of my native
country - Chamisso's work and his adventure
with a friar = "We are like two blind and deaf
men: We converse without seeing or hearing
each other." - An exhibition of Igorots at the
Zoological Garden in Madrid.
Jaegerstrasse 71, Berlin
22 November 1886

Very esteemed Professor,

I received your letter a week ago, but I could
not answer you at once while the Royal Library
has not informed me if it has the work of
Waitz-Gerland and Wallace. Finally it gave me
today Waitz' Anthropology of Primitive
Peoples and I hasten to ask you if this is the
book I need. It deals only with the unity of the
human race, if I am not mistaken. The names
of Gerland and Wallace are not mentioned in it.
I asked also for the work at the municipal
library of Leipzig, but I was told that it cdid not
have any, so that I could not translate the
famous chapter. Please give me the exact title
so that I can begin soon the translation.

I already sent home the tragedies of Schiller

and Andersen's stories for my nephew. I want
also to do something for science and the
history of my native country. I can do that very
well at the Royal Library. I knew already the
work that Chamisso brought from the
Philippines. I read his poems, his account of
his trip, and his adventure with a friar, the only
rude man he saw in the Philippines.I agree
with the poet and you, esteemed Professor, will
soon have the same opinion.

I will look for the books as soon as I have the

titles. Here there is no catalogue for the public,
but it is enormously cheap to be able to use a
library for 25 pfennigs.

I cannot visit Messrs. Jagor and Virchow

because neither do I know them nor do I have
anything to give or say to them. So I would not
wish to bother them.

I thank you in advance for your photograph. I

have no picture of myself now and I am so
timid that I don't dare have myself
photographed; but I will think about it. I'mm
waiting for your picture. Now we are like two
blind and deaf men. We converse without
seeing or hearing each other; this is the mutum,
caecumque sermo.[1]

Don't mind the Philippine Exposition in

Madrid. According to the newspapers and the
information I have, it will not be a Philippine
Exposition but an Exhibition of Igorots, who
will play their musical instruments, cook, sing,
and dance. But I pity this poor people. They
will be exhibited in the Zoological Garden of
Madrid and with their simple original apparel
they will catch a dreadful pneumonia. This
sickness is very frequent in Madrid and even
the Madrid people catch it in spite of their
covering.

Greetings to you and your lady. I need not

reiterate that I am always at your service.

Most affectionately,
Rizal