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MANUSCRITO — BOXER (C. R.). CARTAS e papéis. Londres. 1956.

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MANUSCRITO. BOXER (C. R.)

CARTAS e papéis. Londres: 1956.

Set of several manuscripts by CR Boxer containing: 1. postcard addressed to Frazão de Vasconcelos informing him that the book he is looking for is out of print and impossible to find at any price, but that, in the impossibility of Boxer himself fulfilling the request due to a surgical intervention , there must be a copy at the British Institute of Lisbon; 2. Letter dated January 25, 1956, signed Dioguo do Couto, addressed to Frazão de Vasconcelos, with a list included in which he deals with André Furtado de Mendonça. Remember that the two authors published a work on that Governor of India 3. Letter from Magss Bros sending a check for 7 pounds to Frazão de Vasconcelos, at the request of Charles Boxer, for a sale of two manuscripts about the Mines of Monomotapa; 4. A sheet with a typewritten transcription of a newspaper article in France about Boxer’s offers to the Museum of Angola and with a handwritten note, signed Dioguo do Couto, which states “and this confusion with Charles Boxer is another reason for always sign me dioguo do couto. 5. Typescript with handwritten notes and correction of a brief text about a French pilot, Pierre Berthelot, who served Portugal in the Orient in the 17th century, 2 ff.

 

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