Note 8 — Chapter VII · AGAIN IN THE PHILIPPINES

“I did not believe ‘Noli Me Tangere’ would ever be published. I was in Berlin, heartbroken with sadness8 and weakened and discouraged from hunger and deprivation. I was on the point of throwing my work into the fire as a thing accursed and fit only to die. And then came the telegram from Viola. It revived me; it gave me new hope. I went to the station to receive him and spoke to him about my work. He said he might be able to help me. I reflected and then decided to shorten the book and eliminated whole chapters. So he found it much more concise than it had been. This accounts for the loose pages of manuscript to which you have referred. But these will have a place in the continuation.