Stationery post card Edifil 77A to General Porlier prison, Madrid, 1938

Sent to Luis Cavarino by his wife Aurora Murado, also held in Las Ventas prison, also in Madrid. The prison in Madrid’s General Porlier street was officialy named «Prisión Provisional de Hombres Nº 3». The stationery post card bears two marks: «Censurada» in black ink and «Sed breves en las contestaciones» in red, both stamped upon arrival to General Porlier’s prison. No postmark, but text dated on June 26, 1938.

Both addressee and sender, Luis Chavarino Ladrón de Guevara and his wife Aurora Murado Hernández were detained by the SIM on May 1938, upon disafection offences, but were found no guilty by Madrid’s Tribunal Popular Nº 1 and freed on mid December 1938. See Centro Documental de la Memoria Histórica, signature FC-CAUSA_GENERAL,72,Exp.5