1825. Bilhete de Francisco Ferreira Dias, almocreve, para destinatário não identificado.

Note from Francisco Ferreira Dias to a non identified addressee.

The author asks the addressee about a a third person, presumably for extortion purposes.

In the first quarter of the 19th century, extorsion letters became a very typical practice in the Limoeiro jail, near Lisbon. Prisoners, pretending to be highwaymen, contacted people outside jail, threatening them with all sorts of ruinous events in the case they didn't hand in a certain amount of money. The frequentness of this practice was possible also because of the political and social turmoil associated with these first years of Liberalism.