BRAZZA PIERRE SAVORGNAN DE: (1852-1905) Lot n° 1462

BRAZZA PIERRE SAVORGNAN DE: (1852-1905) Italian-French explorer of Central Africa. The capital of the Republic of the Congo was named Brazzaville after him. An excellent A.L.S., ` P.S. de Brazza´, three pages, 4to, Ain Fezza, province of Oran, Algeria, 1st May 1897, to the President of the Geography Society in Oran, in French. In 1897 Brazza was dismissed as Governor-General of the French Congo, and went to Algeria to treat an amoebiasis. Brazza states in part ` J´aurais été très heureux si la compagne qui est venue partager ma vie d´Afrique avait pu recevoir de vive voix à son arrivée l´expression des sympathies que vous nous avez envoyées ici: mais l´état de santé de ceux qui ont séjourné longtemps aux colonies les oblige parfois à des ménagementys qui m´ont privé de ce plaisir. A votre lettre si flatteuse pour le collègue et si aimable pour Madame Brazza je réponds par le souhait que la ligne de navigation du Congo qui par son escale d´Oran offre aux convalescents de toute la côte occidentale un précieux climat de transition, devienne pour notre société une source directe d´informations scientifiques et pour votre belle ville particulièrement favorisée par sa position géographique un élément toujours croissant de développement commercial et de prospérité...´ (Translation: " I would have been very happy if the companion who came to share my life in Africa had been able to receive in person upon her arrival the expression of the sympathies that you sent us now: but the state of health of those who stayed a long time in the colonies, sometimes obliges them to take care, which deprived me of this pleasure. To your letter, so flattering for my colleague and so kind to Madame Brazza, I respond with the hope that the Congo shipping line, which through its stopover in Oran offers convalescents from the entire western coast a precious climate of transition, and becomes for our company a direct source of scientific information and for your beautiful city particularly favored by its geographical position an ever-increasing element of commercial development and prosperity...") The name of the society has been deleted manually. Paper with a Delta Fine watermark. VG ​