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Joaquim Nabuco letters

Collection — manuscript box: 14 - folder 6

Identifier: 2713m

Scope and content

Letters from Clinton D. Smith in East Lansing, Michigan to Nabuco accepting the position and discussing arrangements, March 1908; letter from Jacob Gould Schurman to "Professor Branner" at Stanford University discussing an invitation to Nabuco to lecture at Cornell, April 1908; and a letter from Andrew Dickson White to Nabuco inviting him to visit, June 30, 1908.

Dates

1908.

Creator

Nabuco, Joaquim, 1849-1910. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Joaquim Nabuco was the Brazilian ambassador to the United States. In 1908, Antonio Carlos Botelho who had attended Cornell wrote to Nabuco that Mr. Hunt, one of his professors, had recommended Clinton D. Smith (Class of 1873) and professor of agriculture at the Michigan Agricultural College) to teach at the agricultural college at Piracicaba, Sao Paulo.