Letter

João de Andrade Corvo to Senhor Benjamin Moran, January 10, 1877

[Inclosure 3 in No. 120.—Translation.]

Mr. Corvo to Mr. Moran.

In answer to a note which your excellency addressed me on the 19th December last past, relative to the desirability of determinating telegraphically from Paris the longitudes of both coasts of South America, and desiring the co-operation of the Portuguese authorities to that end, I have the pleasure to inform your excellency that the government of His Most Faithful Majesty feels disposed to accede to the request of which your excellency is the interpreter, and that necessary orders have and shall be given to that effect. Foreign Office, January 10, 1877.

JOÃO DE ANDRADE CORVO.

Senhor Benjamin Moran, &c., &c.

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