Letter from Teresa Piazza to... (1857)

NRA-L-000644 / 1857

Letter from Teresa Piazza to Rosalinda Sanguettola, 14 January 1857

Teresa Piazza writes to Rosalinda Sanguettola about an earlier shipment of craft or haberdashery supplies: the paper was silk and unsuitable, and accialini were sent instead of Margheritine. She requests the correct items and the account.

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NRA-L-000644

NRA-L-000644 image 1 showing handwritten delivery details, postal evidence, folds, sealing traces and surviving paper edges. — **Image 1**Address panel and postal evidence for NRA-L-000644, with the complete surviving paper condition retained.

NRA-L-000644 image 2 showing Italian handwriting on a folded manuscript sheet and its surviving physical condition. — **Image 2**Manuscript text of NRA-L-000644, capture 2, with folds, stains and damaged edges retained as evidence.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000644
Date: 1857-01-14
Original date: Crema li 14=1=57.
Type: Family correspondence
Language: Italian / it
Sender: Teresa Piazza, f.a D.C.
Recipient: Rosalinda Sanguettola
Places: Crema / Milano
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000644.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Address panel

Original transcript

Alla Rispettabile Signora
La Sig.ra Rosalinda Sanguettola
In Carobbio 40
Milano

Notes

Editorial notes:
The address uses the documentary spelling 'Carobbio' with one r; it is preserved as written.

Address panel

English translation

To the Respectable Madam
Madam Rosalinda Sanguettola
In Carobbio 40
Milan

Notes

Editorial notes:
The address uses the documentary spelling 'Carobbio' with one r; it is preserved as written.

Documentary page 2

Original transcript

V. G. e M. Immacolata!
Pregiat.ma Signora!
Debbo per una seconda volta incomodarla
col farmi provvedere ancora degli oggetti contenuti nel=
l'accluso biglietto a motivo che l'altra carta era di
seta, e per il presente bisogno non mi giova, come
pure erano sbagliati gli accialini, essendo invece loro
Margheritine. Questi due capi non glieli rimando essendo
cosa di poco momento, e potendomi li stessi servire
per altri oggetti. Il restante della spedizione fu di
mia piena soddisfazione, e pertanto La ringrazio e
ben di cuore di tanta sua premura, e cordialità, e per
quest'ultima poi sono confusa, conoscendo di non meritarla.
La prego poi di spedirmi anche il conto, perchè pos=
sa almeno col soddisfare a questo alleggerirmi di una
moltitudine di obbligazioni che Le professo.
Le rinnuovo i sensi della mia gratitu=
dine, e salutandola di cuore ho il piacere di dirmi
nel S. Cuore di Gesù
Di Lei
Crema li 14=1=57.
Aff.ma, ed Obblig.ma serva
Teresa Piazza f.a D. C.

Documentary page 2

English translation

Long live Jesus and Mary Immaculate!
Most Esteemed Madam!
I must trouble you for a second time
to have you provide me again with the items contained in
the enclosed note because the other paper was of
silk, and for the present need it is of no use to me, just
as the steels were also wrong, being instead of them
Margheritine [seed beads]. I am not sending these two items back to you being
a matter of little importance, and being able to use them myself
for other items. The rest of the shipment was to
my full satisfaction, and therefore I thank you
heartily for your great care, and cordiality, and for
this last one I am then overwhelmed, knowing I do not deserve it.
I then beg you to also send me the bill, so that I may
at least by paying this relieve myself of a
multitude of obligations that I profess to you.
I renew to you the expressions of my gratitude,
and greeting you from the heart I have the pleasure of calling myself
in the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Yours
Crema 14 January 1857.
Most affectionate and most obliged servant
Teresa Piazza f. D. C.

Discovery Terms

Sanguettola Family Correspondence
Trade and supplies
Haberdashery
Craft materials
Daughters of Charity

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