| Summary: | The letters received by Sousa Fernandes, between 1862 and 1904, constitute our nuclear source, by
crossing with the classic documentary base of the emigration, the passports. The epistolary was the aggregator
of the information and allowed us to make a case study of a traveling immigrant from the Minho of the
second half of the 19th century, who, like others, had his first job as a clerk in a family member in Rio de
Janeiro, following an upward path, and addressing dimensions such as family and fraternal relations, support
of the young person upon arrival in Rio de Janeiro, phases of difficulties, commuting movements, diseases
such as syphilis, initiation in the Masonic and natural world Contact with new ideas, among others. It is also
possible to conclude that this central source allows to apprehend facets that the classic sources do not reach
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