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Author: Long, Thomas J. Title: Notes and Reading Lists on Brazil. Description: Handwritten bound volume of miscellaneous writings, copied from other sources, concerning the Amazon River. Included are typescript letters, charts, biographies of early missionaries, reports about the source of the Amazon, and information on the Plate, Orinoco and Beni Rivers. In English with some Spanish passages. A five page reading list is found at the end of the volume., 1891-1901 Box 1, Folder 8, Reel 1U

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  2. Brazil and Portugal collection, 1639-1907
  3. Inventory, 1639-1907
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Brazil and Portugal collection, 1639-1907 1.75 Linear Feet

A collection of correspondence; writings; and published illustrated materials from and about Brazil related to Imperial Brazil, religious, economic, and geographic concerns. There is one item under the heading Portugal: a letter of condolence upon the death of a distant relative of Vasco de Gama.
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Inventory, 1639-1907

This collection includes a series of letters, mostly thank you notes from the emperor and empress of Brazil to various Brazilian cardinals. Also found is a miscellaneous copy volume of writings about the Amazon River. The only item from Portugal is a letter by a cosmographer concerning the death of a descendant of Vasco de Gama.

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