Benjamin Moran to João de Andrade Corvo, January 16, 1877

Mr. Moran to Mr. Corvo.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 10th instant, in reply to the one which I addressed to you on the 19th of December last, under instructions from Mr. Fish, suggesting that His Most Faithful Majesty’s government might be pleased to co-operate with the Governments of the United States and Brazil in the determination telegraphically from Paris of the longitudes of both coasts of South America, and I am gratified to learn that His Majesty’s government is disposed to accede to this request, and that the necessary orders have been and shall be given to that end. I shall at once inform Mr. Fish of this reply, and promptly communicate to your excellency any further information I may receive from my government on the subject.

I avail myself of this occasion to renew to your excellency the assurances of my highest consideration.