Je voudrais vous ecrire dans votre langue, mais, comme je n'en ai pas
l'habitude, j'ai craigne de ne pas vous exprimer tout-a-fait les
sentiments de
Votre affectionne,
D. PEDRO D'ALCANTARA.
RIO,
_22 Octobre, 1872_.
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Airy's reply was as follows:
ROYAL OBSERVATORY, GREENWICH,
_1872, November 26_.
SIRE,
I am honoured with your Imperial Majesty's autograph letter of October
22 informing me that, on considering the attention which the Royal
Society of London had been able to offer to your Majesty, as well as
the explanation of the various parts of the establishment of this
Observatory which I had the honor and the high gratification to
communicate, You had been pleased to place my name in the Imperial
Order of the Rose, and to present to me the Decorations of Grand Cross
of that Order.
With pride I receive this proof of Your Majesty's recollection of your
visit to the scientific institutions of Great Britain.
The Diploma of the appointment to the Order of the Rose, under the
Imperial Sign Manual, together with the Decorations of the Order, have
been transmitted to me by his Excellency Don Pereira de Andrada, Your
Majesty's Representative at the British Court.
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