1818. Carta de Manuel Martínez de Santa Coloma, negociante, para José Luís da Silva, negociante.

Letter from Manuel Martínez de Santa Coloma, businessman, to José Luís da Silva, businessman.

The author writes José Luís da Silva, justifying himself and asking the addressee to gather more information about the case for which he is accused.

José Luís da Silva accused José Maria Dias and Manuel Martínez de Santa Coloma, Spanish, of having stolen property and revenues from doña Maria, Marquesa de Louriçal, a title which belonged to the first class of royal nobility, but whose profits in the early nineteenth century (all from royal properties) were well below those obtained by other houses. Manuel Martínez de Santa Coloma wrote to José Luís da Silva apologizing and asking him to inform himself better about the case which led to the process.