1823. Carta de autora não identificada, atribuída a Marcelina Rita Clímaco, para Francisco Xavier de Sousa, pintor.

Request letter from a woman, probably Marcelina Rita Clímaco, to Francisco Xavier de Sousa, a painter.

The author asks for a meeting and for the addressee to send her two coins («cruzados»). She complains about her sisters, who already know about her secret.

Diogo Fausto Reixa da Costa, a notary, Francisco Xavier de Sousa, Manuel Joaquim Madeira, a medicine doctor, and José Maria Grande were all accused of meeting at a masonry lodge and of libel against the kingdom, an accusation which the accused denied. They prosecuted the plaintiff themselves for defamation. The proceedings against them include several good behaviour guarantees given by witnesses and also two texts on the Methods to prepare gunpowder (with mercury and with silver). Two love letters are also there, which were aprehended to Francisco Xavier de Sousa.