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From Arthur de Souza Corrêa1   28 December 1881

Brazilian Legation 2a., Granville Place. | London. W.

28 Décembre 1881

Monsieur,

Le Baron de Villa Franca, mon compatriote, a été très reconnaissant de l’appréciation que vous avez bien voulu émettre au sujet des travaux d’apposition mis par lui en pratique dans la culture de la canne à sucre2

Il me charge maintenant de vous faire parvenir quelques observations qu’il a été à même de faire plus récemment ainsi que la déclaration ci-jointe des principaux planteurs de la Province de Rio de Janeiro qui a rapport au même objet.3

Persuadé que ces communications peuvent avoir quelque intèrêt pour vous je prends donc la liberté de vous les adresser au nom du Baron de Villa Franca, en vous priant d’agréer la nouvelle assurance de la haute considération avec laquelle j’ai l’honneur d’être

Votre très obeissant serviteur | A. de Souza Corrêa | Secrétaire de la Légation du Brasil

Chs. Darwin Esqre. F.R.S.

Footnotes

1
For a translation of this letter, see Appendix I.
2
Ignacio Francisco Silveira da Motta, baron de Vila Franca, was a Brazilian politician and farmer. CD’s earlier letter to him has not been found, but see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 23 October 1880 and n. 1.
3
The enclosures have not been found, but CD and George John Romanes communicated the baron de Vila Franca’s work on new varieties of sugar cane to the Linnean Society on 6 April 1882; the paper was read on 4 May 1882, but not published (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1880–2): 30–1; Linnean Society, SP register, reference 2371). The paper was also mentioned in Journal of Botany: British and Foreign 20 (1882): 192. CD’s draft of his and Romanes’s commentary on the paper is in DAR 207.4.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Translation

From Arthur de Souza Corrêa1   28 December 1881

Brazilian Legation 2a., Granville Place. | London. W.

28 December 1881

Sir,

The Baron de Villa Franca, my compatriot, has been very grateful for the assessment that you were so kind to have made on his works on apposition in the cultivation of cane sugar.2

He now asks me to forward some observations that he was able to make more recently as well as the attached statement by the principal planters of the Province of Rio de Janeiro, which relates to the same subject.3

Convinced that these communications could have some interest for you, I therefore take the liberty of sending them on behalf of the Baron de Villa Franca, while asking you to accept the renewed assurance of my high regard with which I remain

Your obedient servant | A. de Souza Corrêa | Secretary of the Brazilian Legation

Chs. Darwin Esqre. F.R.S.

Footnotes

1
For a transcription of this letter in its original French, see Transcript.
2
Ignacio Francisco Silveira da Motta, baron de Vila Franca, was a Brazilian politician and farmer. CD’s earlier letter to him has not been found, but see Correspondence vol. 28, letter from Arthur de Souza Corrêa, 23 October 1880 and n. 1.
3
The enclosures have not been found, but CD and George John Romanes communicated the baron de Vila Franca’s work on new varieties of sugar cane to the Linnean Society on 6 April 1882; the paper was read on 4 May 1882, but not published (Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (1880–2): 30–1; Linnean Society, SP register, reference 2371). The paper was also mentioned in Journal of Botany: British and Foreign 20 (1882): 192. CD’s draft of his and Romanes’s commentary on the paper is in DAR 207.4.

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Summary

Forwards observations from the Baron de Villa Franca relating to sugar-cane culture.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-13583
From
João Arthur (Arthur) de Souza Corrêa
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
London, Granville Place, 2a
Source of text
DAR 160: 283
Physical description
ALS 3pp (French)

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13583,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13583.xml

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