1597. Carta familiar de Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, mercador, para o seu irmão, Simão Álvares.

Request letter from Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, a merchant, to his brother, Simão Álvares.

The author regrets the lack of news and lack of contact with his brother. He sends a list of merchandises that he wants to receive in Bordeaux: diamond rings, rubis, pearls (white, not yellow), grenadine, musk, shantung, benzoin rosaries, and Segovia fabric

A New Christian, Simão Rodrigues, was arrested when he went from Bordeaux to Lisbon. The letters he had brought from Bordeaux, sent by another New Christian, the merchant Duarte Rodrigues, were ceased by the Inquisition.