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Two cousins of Isabel Brandão de Melo

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Two cousins of Isabel de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo (a daughter of the Marquesses of Sesimbra). They travelled with her party by hired car from Lisbon and stood beside her at the Cova on 13 October 1917.

From LisbonTravelled from afar1 passage · 13 October 1917
13 OctSecond-handSaw itLetterTravelled from afarSun spinning
As told by Isabel de Jesus Maria de Sousa Holstein Brandão de Melo
English

Two of my cousins who were near me were beside themselves and affirmed that they saw the sun exactly like a firework spinning dizzily.

Português

Deux de mes cousines qui étaient près de moi, étaient hors d'elle-même[m]es et affirmaient voir exactment le soleil comme une pièce de feu d'artifice tournant vertigineusement.

DCF III-1, Doc. 238 · letter · 31 Oct 1917 (3 weeks later)Scans (2)Link
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