Carta
By: de D. Pedro Duque de Bragança, aos Brasileiros: pocas horas antes da sua morte..
Publisher: Imprensa de Gandra e filhos
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Porto
Language: por
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Politics and government; Brazil
Notes: Work of propaganda purported to be a death-bed letter from Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil and king of Portugal, in which he endorses liberal reforms. Moraes cites an article by Otavio Tarquino de Sousa in the Correio da manhã, printed in Rio de Janeiro on January 1, 1948, proving its falsity.

Another edition was printed in Rio de Janeiro by Typographia Fluminense in the same year.

Text on page 2 claims that this letter appeared in the Gazeta commercial da Bahia, number 284, May 4, 1835.

Signed and dated on page 12: Pedro. Paço de Queluz, ás 4 horas de madrugada de 23 de setembro de 1834.

In this letter, the author asks Brazilians to be reminded of his services to the cause of independence, urges the citizens to support the Constitution of 1824, and to reject his political enemies.

Signatures: *⁶.

Engraved coat of arms of Pedro I on title page.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: page 159

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