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This candidature presents for registration at the International Memory of the World Register the Documents regarding the Emperor d. Pedro II’s journeys in Brazil and abroad, nominated by UNESCO in 2010 for the Memory of the World Brazil Register, which constitute the Serie Journeys of the Emperor – 1840/1913. They belong to the fond Archive of the Imperial House of Brazil, and are formed by diaries, journey itineraries, correspondence, expense reports, newspapers, pamphlets, programmes, tributes, invitations and sketches; in total 2.210 documents.

D. Pedro II undertook various journeys during the 49 years of his reign, through Brazil and four continents, getting to know new territories and other cultures. The documentation enable us to draw a panel of the XIX century and the passage to modernity; it reveals aspects of the thinking, the scientific discoveries, the cultural diversity and the political passions, as well as analysing diplomatic relations between Brazil and countries from different continents.

We reaffirm the importance of these documents and all actions that lead to their conservation, study and disclosure, for beyond the manuscripts of an Emperor and the references to his journeys, they are the description of an age of deep historical transformations in Brazil and abroad.

Journeys of the Emperor between 1840 and 1913. D. Pedro II undertook various journeys during the 49 years of his reign, through Brazil and four continents, getting to know new territories and other cultures. The documents are prime sources written and received by d. Pedro II during a period of profound historic changes that relate to cultural referentials of modernity, from the perspective of a privileged observer - the Emperor of Brazil - and his interlocutors, mostly intellectuals. They reveal aspects of the thinking, the scientific discoveries, the cultural diversity and the political passions, as well as analyzing diplomatic relations between Brazil and countries from different continents.