1591. Carta de Francisco Madeira, mercador, para João Nunes, também mercador.

Private letter from Filipe Vaz Lobo to an anonymous recipient.

The author gives the recipient several news about his businesses, and about other subjects of Brazil.

The Inquisition archives contain, apart from the around 40 thousand individual proceedings ("processos"), a collection of scattered charges, for which the Inquisition "Promotor" had to decide whether or not to prosecute. Complaints, confessions, letters by the commissioners or about different stages of each proceedings are some of the document types that can be found in these books. This letter has been kept among such documentation. The envelope of this letter is truncated and unreadable, making it impossible to understand who the real recipients are.