1534. Carta de Diogo Gomes para Cristóvão Brandão.

Letter of private affairs from Diogo Gomes, in Évora, to Cristóvão Brandão, in Lisboa.

The author collects money from the addressee. He also apologizes for sending the letter porter to collect it, but he says he really needs the money because of his own debts.

Several letters can be found in the collection ‘Corpo Cronológico’, a documental fund under the custody of the National Archive of Torre do Tombo. It is a collection composed mostly by documentation of judicial and administrative nature, from 1161 to 1696. After the earthquake of 1755 many scattered documents were incorporated in this fund. Just like the name suggests, the main criterion of organization within the Corpo Cronológico is the documents' date.