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Maarten Janssen, 2014-
Author(s) | José de Saldanha |
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Addressee(s) | Mariana Efigénia da Fonseca Pereira |
In English | Love letter from José de Saldanha, military, geographer and astronomer, to his wife, Mariana Efigénia da Fonseca Pereira. The author is very affectionate and wistful, telling his wife some news about his early days in Brazil and emphasizing how he misses her. José de Saldanha was accused of bigamy, having married in Brazil with D. Ana Joaquina Tomásia while is first wife, D. Mariana Efigénia da Fonseca Pereira, was still alive, living in Lisbon. The defendant argued that he did not knew about his marriage with Mariana Efigénia. According to him, she misused some letters of attorney to get married to him without his consent. Mariana Efigénia, however, had three love letters that the defendant wrote to her, and presented them in court. The process does not contain informations about any sentence. |
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