Letters to Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1863-1882.

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Letters to Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1863-1882.

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Consists of 53 letters in French from Louis Agassiz to Pedro II, mainly concering Agassiz's expedition to Brazil (to collect specimens for the Harvard Museum in Cambridge, Mass.). His letters are written from the U.S., Brazil and on board ship and give progress reports on his trips to the Amazon and other areas in Latin America. He also discusses American literary figures, such as Longfellow and Emerson, with Pedro II. A few other letters in the collection are from Alexander Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and John Greenleaf Whittier.

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