1597. Carta de amor de Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, mercador, para a noiva e prima, Beatriz Rodrigues.

Love letter from Duarte Rodrigues Braço de Ouro, a merchant, to his fiancée and cousin, Beatriz Rodrigues.

The author writes from Bordeaux to Monforte asking his fiancée to join him soon because he cannot wait any longer. He dreams of her and of the time when they will be together in bed. He also asks her to bring several items, especially clothing and jewels, and gives specific instructions on what her father should send for a dowry.

A New Christian, Simão Rodrigues, was arrested when he went from Bordeaux to Lisbon. The letters he had brought from Bordeaux, sent by another New Christian, the merchant Duarte Rodrigues, were ceased by the Inquisition.