 In his will, he left a great legacy and a lifetime pension to a lady who had been his mistress since 1891, Maria Dolores Braun.All the rest of his property would be left for the Brazilian Academy of Letters, but with the condition that the Academy should hold every five years, two competitions in his honor, each with a first prize of 10 short stories, a second five stories and a third of three stories.One of the contests should be for monographs on "the best way to expand primary education in Brazil," and the other for monographs on the Portuguese language.