1830. Carta de José Teodoro Fernandes Sales para João Dias Alves Branco, mestre de fábrica da pólvora.

Private business letter from to José Teodoro Fernandes Sales, a craftsman, to João Dias Alves Branco, a craftsman.

The author discusses with the addressee how difficult it has been to have their common craft officially recognized. He accepts a delivery of gunpowder it the addressee can send it.

João Dias Alves Branco was master craftsman in the Royal Factory of Gunpowder in Barcarena, near Lisbon. He was prosecuted for stealing gunpowder from his own factory and trying to sell it to acquaintances of him. He was also accused of an arson attack to a gunpowder factory in Spain and of making counterfeit money.