1816. Carta de Nicolau Murta, oficial na Secretaria Inglesa, para Manuel Francisco Furtado, negociante.

Private business letter from Nicolau Murta, a clerk, to Manuel Francisco Furtado, a trader.

The author guarantees to the addressee that the next day there will be money for payments..

Nicolau Murta was a Sergeant in the Lisbon Police. Later, he went to work as a clerk in the English Secretary Services. He owed a large sum of 2,011 «réis», corresponding to several salaries of British Army officers. He tried, by letter, to postpone the payment to his creditor but when he knew that he was going to be arrested, he committed suicide.