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1708. Carta de Filipe de Sousa para Luís José de Vasconcelos, fidalgo.

Author(s)	Filipe de Sousa
Addressee(s)	Luís José de Vasconcelos
In English	After the liberal revolution in Portugal, the state centralized the Art education by merging the teaching of Fine Arts and of Mechanic Arts. The Lisbon National Academy of Fine Arts was founded in this context in 1836 and was inaugurated in the following year. It occupied the building of the extinct Monastery of São Francisco, where a library of thousands of volumes was also available. Although its history was obviously made of changes, the Academy maintained a strong cultural, pedagogical and honorific vocation. Besides forming new artists, the Academy always gave scholarships and prizes and saw to the publication of reference works. The documentation that we publish from its archival funds belong to a donation made in 1902 by António TomásPires (1850-1913), an ethnographer, writer, politician, and member of the National Monuments committee. He assembled documents from the 16th to the 19th century, among which many private and family letters. If there is no translation for the letter itself, you may copy the text (while using the view 'Standardization') and paste it to an automatic translator of your choice.

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[2]	~~Meu Sr Bejo a VM mil vezes as mãos~~
[3]	pla merce que me fas de darme boas novas
[4]	suas, e de quer informar se do como fis a
[5]	minha jornada; ~~foi bastantemente mo-~~
[6]	lhada, mas vinha eu ja tão costumado a
[7]	experimentar esta inclemencia do tem-
[8]	po q a não estranhava
[9]	~~Ha muito tempo q sigo hũa oppinião~~
[10]	q sempre pareceo q era mui propria
[11]	dos homes honrados, e he publicar as ver-
[12]	dades, e referir as virtudes daquellas pe-
[13]	çoas em q as sei reconhecer; ~~logo que~~
[14]	aqui cheguei disse nas partes em que
[15]	me paresseu conveniente q era justo q
[16]	VM tivesse grande atenção assim ao
[17]	serviço q VM lhe havia feito, como ao
[18]	danno q a sua fazenda havia padecido
[19]	com a guerra; ~~agora q VM me ordena~~
[20]	q faça ao Sr Marqs de Allegrete a re-
[21]	prezentação de hũa, e outra couza pa ser
[22]	despachado com o governo da terra de en
[23]	tão executarei aquella ordem, e
[24]	estimara eu mto q a minha delliga
[25]	fosse tão util aos requerimentos de
[26]	VM como me foi a me q me fes
[27]	dandome em Elvas a comodedade
[28]	de estar admiravelmte agazalhado,
[29]	por cujo favor sempre me confecarei
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[31]	Sr Luis Joze de Vos