From a very young age, when he was still a preparatory student, he edited the monthly magazine Correio do Brasil [Brazil Mail] in Lisbon. This was followed by contributions to Jornal do Recife [Recife Journal]; in Le Brésil (Paris); O Repórter [The Reporter] (Lisbon) and Revista de Portugal [Portugal Magazine]. As a journalist, his most important professional activity was at the Jornal do Comércio [Journal of Commerce] (Rio de Janeiro), followed by O Estado de São Paulo [São Paulo State], Jornal do Brasil [Journal of Brazil], Diário de Pernambuco [Pernambuco Daily], and Correio da Manhã [Morning Mail] (Rio de Janeiro). He published articles in Deutsche Revue , Bulletin de la Société Royale Belge de Géographie , La Revue (Belgium), The Hispanic American Historical Revue, Boletim da União Pan- Americana , and La Prensa (Buenos Aires). In academic journals focused on historical and literary studies, he often contributed to Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de São Paulo [Magazine of the Historical and Geographical Institute of São Paulo], Revista do Instituto Arqueológico e Geográfico de Pernambuco [Magazine of the Archaeological and Geographical Institute of Pernambuco] , Revista do Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro [Magazine of the Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute] , Revista da Academia Brasileira de Letras [Magazine of the Brazilian Academy of Letters] , Revista Brasileira [Brazilian Magazine] , Revista Americana [American Magazine] and Revista da Academia Pernambucana de Letras [Magazine of the Pernambuco Academy of Letters] .

His first comprehensive study— Pernambuco, seu desenvolvimento histórico [Pernambuco, its historical development] (1895)—earned him a corresponding membership at the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico Brasileiro [Brazilian Historical and Geographical Institute] and, two years later, at the Academia Brasileira de Letras [Brazilian Academy of Letters], of which he was one of the founders. With this work he established himself—at the age of twenty-seven—as a historian of Brazilian themes, more specifically those linked to Pernambuco regionalism, an original bond that was strengthened by his marriage to Flora Cavalcanti de Albuquerque.

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