Collecção de alguns artigos escriptos e publicados no Brasil … seguida de alguns documentos e precedida e seguida de observações em refutação ás calumnias e convicios contra elle publicados.

Rio de Janeiro, Typographia da Ass. do Despertador, 1839.. First Edition. 8°, loose in contemporary marbled wrappers (spine defective). In good to very good condition. 48 pp. *** FIRST EDITION. Rocha Cabral's character was maligned in the Jornal do Comércio, from whom his O Despertador was taking some government business; this Collecção includes reprints of articles printed in the Despertador defending himself against the Jornal's allegations, reminiscences of the author's time in Rio Grande do Sul, a transcription of a circular to the residents of Rio Grande do Sul published as a pamphlet in Villa do Rio Grande do Sul, 1834, the conclusion of "Refutação da correspondência inserta no 'Recopilador Liberal' relativa à subscripção portugueza n'esta provincia, e em outras do Império," also originally published in pamphlet form, Rio Grande 1835, a document on the founding of the Gabinete de Leitura, and letters testifying to Rocha Cabral's character.Rocha Cabral (1806-1850) fled his native Portugal in 1831 and became a naturalized Brazilian, living in Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Geraes. He was cofounder of the journal Despertador, published from 1838 to 1841 ("foi elle o que fez a nossa imprensa politica, e os nossos jornaes subirem a uma escala superior. O Despertador foi um diario monumental na historia da nossa imprensa," as described in Innocêncio) and was also founder of the Gabinete de Leitura Portuguez in Rio de Janeiro and the Sociedade Promotora da Indústria da Provincia de S. Pedro do Rio Grande do Sul.*** Barreto, Bibliografia Sul-riograndense I, 240-1; on the author, see pp. 233-41. Innocêncio V, 13-4. Not in Sacramento Blake. NUC: CU, MH.