From Arthur de Souza Corrêa 23 October 1880
Brazilian Legation. | London
23d October 1880
Sir,
I have to express my own gratification and by anticipation the thanks of the Baron de Villa Franca for the gracious and instructive manner in which you have replied to the advances I made to you in some apprehension that it might be troubling and disturbing you.1 But it is one of the advantages of science I find in you to at once welcome strangers as to teach mankind.
I will forward your precious letter to the Baron de Villa Franca, and it will no doubt urge him to fresch efforts to add to that collection of facts which it is for you to generalise.2
I have the honor to be with profound respect | Your faithful Servant | A. de Souza Corrêa.
Charles Darwin Esqre. F.R.S.
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks CD for his gracious and instructive reply to the Baron de Villa Franca; his letter will be forwarded to Brazil.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12772
- From
- João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 282
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12772,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12772.xml
