This article analyses the correspondance of Capistrano de Abreu (1853-1927), considered by many as the most important Brazilian historian of the early of the Twentieth Century. The objective is to recover some aspects about the historiographical exercise, considering the characteristics of the historian’s work in his age, so as to understand a double and simultaneous construction: from the historiography and from the historian.
Capistrano de Abreu; historiography; correspondance