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POVOLIDE (Condessa de). A NOSSA Junqueira. Aveiras de Baixo. 1959. - POVOLIDE (Condessa de) A NOSSA Junqueira . Aveiras de Baixo: Tip. das Escolas Profissionais Salesianas, 1959. XVI, 662 pp.: il.; 245 mm. First published edition of this precious collection of letters, with a preface by Caetano Beirão. It brings together the correspondence exchanged between D. João da Câmara (1852-1908), one of the most prominent Portuguese playwrights of the turn of the 19th to the 20th century, author of *Os Velhos *, *O Pântano* , and *D. Afonso VI* , among other fundamental plays of national theatre, and his wife, D. Eugénia de Melo Breyner, related to the Marquis of Ficalho. It also includes letters from the couple's son, José Paulo da Câmara, journalist and writer. The work opens with a genealogical study of the Câmara, Vila Franca, and Ribeira Grande families, tracing back to the discoverer of Madeira, followed by an evocation of the Junqueira Palace, the family residence and repository of the archives that gave rise to the book. Compiled and annotated by the playwright's granddaughter, D. Maria Emília Seabra da Câmara, Countess of Povolide, it documents the domestic, emotional, and social daily life of one of the most representative families of the Lisbon aristocracy linked to literature, over more than eighty years, from 1875. Esteemed and sought after, both for its documentary interest regarding the inner circle of D. João da Câmara, and for the interruption of the work after the first volume. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate