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[1702]. Carta de Filipa Maria para Manuel Soares Brandão, médico.

Author(s)	Filipa Maria
Addressee(s)	Manuel Soares Brandão
In English	Request letter from Filipa Maria, the daughter of an attorney, to Manuel Soares Brandão, a medicine doctor. The author asks money from the addressee in order to travel from Lisbon to Castelo Branco and find an uncle who will take her in. She argues that she is alone and helpless ever since her family has been arrested. The medicine doctor Manuel Soares Brandão was arrested by the Inquisition under the accusation of Judaism. He was apparently betrayed by Filipa Maria, an orphan who used to write to several Jewish people after her family was arrested, asking for money so that she could travel and join an uncle who lived far away. Her brother, a soldier, also made the same kind of requests. 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 sor ~~quem a vmce lhe fas suplica~~
[3]	lhe fillipa maria fa
[4]	de Mel da Costa solisi
[5]	tador de cauzas q
[6]	q pela morte de meu pay
[7]	e pricão de meos hirmaos
[8]	he hirmãa he tio o Dor
[9]	gaspar de Souza Toles
[10]	fiquei tam dezenpara
[11]	da q no Mundo ha semi
[12]	lhante desenparo he
[13]	pa fugir a tantas penas m
[14]	e he forcozo valerme
[15]	do seu emparo ~~pla Sua~~
[16]	grande grandeza me
[17]	mande huma esmola
[18]	pa ajuda de pasar da
[19]	qui pa Castelo branco
[20]	aonde tenho hun ti
[21]	o ~~pelo portador~~
[22]	q he de caza pode Responder com o q for servido
[23]	e fico pedindo a deos lhe aumte a vida he saude
[24]	~~serva de vmce felipa Ma~~