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From: <jverne~at~portugalmail.pt>
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:53:11 +0100
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Thank you for your vote and for your help friend Valetoux. I send a mail to you thanking the help with verne's information.

And my other vernians friends, i thank your votes for the stamp.
Only pass the firsts 20. I am in 55th position:/
The voting finishes April 8th.
Thank you.

Citando Valetoux <valetoux~at~wanadoo.fr>:

> Dear Vernian friend,
>
> Sure i will vote for The Jules stamp!
> May i give you few precisions concerning Jules stop in Portugal?
>
> SM arrived on the wesnesday 5th of june 1878 (and not on the 6th): passing
> Rocca cape in the morning, took a pilot at Cascaïs and entered the Tage
> river. Anchored before custom house at 9 am. Jules is gone ashore, rented a
> car to go to the french Consulate, managed by Mr O'Neil, banker. Then, he
> visited the chapell San Roque. He met Mr Corazzi. Visited the convent of
> Misericordia and his cloister; gone at O'Neil 's house and met the all
> family.Then he went back to the Central hotel where he dinered with Corazzi
> and O'Neil. On the evening, they had a walk in the city (mater de rieros, la
> Galega, Esther Danghana). He wondered the houses with porcelain facades.
> Went back on bord at midnight by boat. Wonderful hot weather. On the 6th,
> Jules stood on bord. He looked the landscape: walls at Cintra, the harbour,
> the houses and hills, the old Lisbon, remaining of the earthmovings. On the
> evening, he dinered again at central hotel with O'Neil junior and Corazzi.
> He then visited Mr Palha. He noted the local carpets. Come back on bord at
> midnight by a small boat.
> The SM III left Lisboa at 6 o'clock on the friday 7th by ESE winds.
>
> That's what Verne has noted. Maybe a few détails more to add by reading the
> local newspapers?
> Verne went back in 1884; arrived at Lisboa on the 22th of may and sailed on
> the 24. But that is another story!
> 2 vernian visits in Lisboa, that's enough for a stamp to remember!
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Valetoux Philippe
>
>
>
>
> -------Message original-------
>
> De : jverne~at~portugalmail.pt
> Date : 02/04/2007 03:25:29
> A : jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
> Sujet : Jules Verne Stamp
>
> My friends and loving of Jules Verne, I am here to ask for a favor to all!
>
> In Portugal, the CTT (post offices of Portugal) had opened an initiative
> that it aims at to renew the proximity between the Portuguese and the
> universe of the stamps. Therefore they had asked for that it was chosen in
> subject for stamps 2008 and I remembered the visit of Jules Verne to
> Portugal.
>
> In the next year it makes 130 years that the writer visited Portugal and
> therefore it asked for to you that they voted in the subject so that he is
> one of the chosen ones and either made a dedicated stamp. I thank your aid!
>
> Please vote here:
> http://aquihaselo.com/Vote.aspx?idUser=1406
>
> (Please put your email and click in "enviar". Later going to your box and
> click in the 1º link to confirm the vote).
>
> On the visit of Verne Portugal, is known that it arrived in the night of 6
> of June of 1878, had dinner with the writers Pinheiro Chagas and Ramalho
> Ortigão and the ilustrator Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro in the Braganza Hotel, in
> Lisbon. Knows that it came folloied with its brother Paul, with the friends
> Duval and Hetzel publisher and that it will have passed two nights in Lisbon
> One thinks that it will have visited the Monastery of the Jerónimos and the
> Society of Geographia of Lisbon.
>
> Thank you to all and forgive me (one more time) my english!
> www.jverneportugal.no.sapo.pt
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