The family had a city house at Sta.Thereza, a very quiet neighborhood were many foreigners used to make their "chacaras".(country houses), to avoid the crowd and hot downtown. Their neighbors were the Nabuco family, to whom they got close. The head of the family was Joaquim Nabuco, politician and diplomat. George Frederick, was a friend of Carolina, who became a successfull writer in hers elderly days, and of the elder of Nabuco's son, later a priest known as Monsenhor Nabuco.
In 1910, Joaquim Nabuco suddenly died in the U.S.A. He was, by then, Brazilian Ambassador and his body was brought to be buried in Brazil. George was invited to the guard of honor, formed to receive the body. George was 25. We can see for the pictures taken during his lives that the four children of James and Elizabeth alternate living in Brazil and England till their maturity. This was mainly because of the studies , and they used to visit their parents in Brazil, very often. We know that at least once Elizabeth took a trip to England to visit their children, but it seems that this happened other times.
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