From Arthur de Souza Corrêa 20 October 1880
Brazilian Legation. | London | 2a. Granville Place | W.
20th. October 1880
Sir,
The Baron de Villa Franca, a great proprietor and cultivator in Brazil, has written the enclosed short memorial in French on the subject of culture and propagation of Sugar Cane, and his great ambition is to procure your appreciation of his facts and opinion of his deduction.1 For that purpose he has asked me to submit his work to you. Should you be disposed to gratify him by perusing it and giving your opinion upon its merits, I would be extremely obliged for your kindness.2
The only excuse I can make for this intrusion on you is the anxiety of my—countryman to submit his investigations to the highest scientific authority and my own inability to ascertain how to approach you.
Should my application be inadmissible, I will ask you to regard it as another consequence of that fame which has made your name as renowned in the new as in the old world.
Believe me with profound respect | Your faithful servant | A. de Souza Corréa | Secretary of the Brazilian Legation.
Chas. Darwin Esqre. M.A, F.R.S.
Footnotes
Summary
The Baron de Villa Franca would like CD’s evaluation of an enclosed memoir on the culture and propagation of sugar-cane [see 13600].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12767
- From
- João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Granville Place, 2a
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 281
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12767,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12767.xml
