WCP3099

Letter (WCP3099.3067)

[1]1,2

Caburi, Rio Negro3

1 julho 1874

Snr Alfredo Wallace

Estimo muito de saber de saude e felicidade. Sinto muito da minha parte que eu não mando a lembrança pelo não tiver occasião de mandar uma carta a[o] senhor.

Como agora acho occasião de mandar uma lembrança, eu mando uma lembrança agora porque acho occasião. ainda estou vivo no mundo, e estou conforme de fui servido.

Manoel Ricardo Antonio de Cimão [signature]

1
This letter was dictated to James William Helenus Trail (1851-1919) who served as botanist to the Amazon Steam Navigation Company 1873-75. See WCP3098.3066, Trail to ARW, 10 May 1875.
2
This letter was written "verbatim at his dictation" by James William Helenus Trail (1851-1919) who served as botanist to the Amazon Steam Navigation Company 1873-75. See WCP3098.3066, Trail to ARW, 10 May 1875.
3

A tributary of the Rio Negro river in north-western Brazil, known today as the Rio Cauaburi.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Mr. Alfred Wallace

I am very glad to know of [your] health and happiness. I feel sorry for not having sent [you] my regards because I did not have the opportunity to send you sir a letter.

As I now find the opportunity to do so, I send my regards. I am still alive in the world, and I am the same as when I served you.

Manoel Ricardo Antonio de Cimão [signature]

Editorial information

Status: Edited (but not proofed) transcription [Letter (WCP3099.3067)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Paterson, Gavin [2018-08-06] Transcription checked by Paterson, Gavin [2018-08-06] Transcription checked by Da Silva, Victor [2020-06-16] Transcription checked by Costa, Leslie [2020-07-20] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Da Silva, Victor [2021-01-04]

Author’s draft (WCP3099.8314)

Please cite as “WCP3099,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 29 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3099