Reiset to Broumer: Matthieu’s... (1807)

NRA-L-000845 / 1807

Reiset to Broumer: Matthieu’s newspaper subscriptions, war reports and financial business — 16 March 1807

Reiset asks Broumer to subscribe Matthieu to two newspapers at Cassel for three months, reports news of Augereau’s corps, and discusses financial business. A dated postscript concerns a possible hospital appointment and a remittance.

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NRA-L-000845

NRA-L-000845 image 1 showing Broumer’s delivery address and the seal area, with the original missing section of paper preserved. — **Image 1**Address panel.

NRA-L-000845 image 2 showing the French note about Matthieu and the dated postscript of 16 March 1807, preserving the physical paper loss at the right edge. — **Image 2**Letter text and dated postscript.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000845
Date: 1807-03-16
Original date: 16 mars 1807 [postscript]
Type: Letter
Language: French / fr
Sender: Reiset
Recipient: Broumer
Places: Paris [inferred from the Bank of France address]
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Letter text and dated postscript; Address panel; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000845.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Letter text and dated postscript

Original transcript

faites moi le plaisir, mon cher ami, d’abonner
Matthieu pour trois Mois à Compter du 1ᵉʳ mars au Moniteur
et au Journal des Débats, sous l’adresse suivante
M. Matthieu Inspecteur aux revues, Intendant [lacune matérielle]
de la Hesse. à Cassel en Hesse.

J’ai conduit hier sa femme à francfort d’où elle [lacune matérielle]
avec [quelques mots incertains] rendue.
Envoyez moi une [quelques mots incertains] en [un mot incertain]
les Messieurs banquiers à ffort Comment [quelques mots incertains]
faire offre pour de l’or, et cependant Je sais qu’en ce moment
C’est encor une des places des [un mot incertain] où Je fais le plus
d’affaires.
nous avons beaucoup perdu de monde dans la dernière affaire,
le Corps d’augereau est dit on réduit à près de 4000 h qui seront
fondus dans les autres Corps, augereau aussi est fort souffrant
beaucoup de ses Rheumatismes plus encor que de ses blessures.
Si Desprez est si bien en selle, Comment se fait il que son
Papier ne se fait qu’à 10 à 12 pᵒ/ₒ tandis que tous les
autres font à 4 ou 5.
Bonjour Je vous Embrasse de tout [mon cœur?]
[paraphe]

[Addition au-dessous de la dernière phrase]
J’ai aujourd’huy 19 millions en [porte?] il n’y a que vous et le Trésor public que Je paye [un mot rayé].

16 mars 1807
[Despeau?] médecin de l’hopital militaire d’ici est fort mal, Je le crois à mourir, Il ne faut
pas laisser manquer cela à [Mafau?], et il n’y aurait pas un instant à perdre, si on avait d’avance
[député?] à [un mot incertain] ou au ministre actuel, ainsi qu’à vous, il faudroit [mot rayé] soigneusement prendre vos renseignemens
d’avance pour savoir à qui vous adresser à Paris au ministre et travailler chaudement et à propos.
rien ne lui feroit mieux que Cette place.
J’ai demandé aux [Gontard?] Comment Ils faisaient d’affaire en rendant à la Banque, [Baudrant?] dit
qu’ils n’y trouvaient presque aucun avantage et que C’étoit à peu près pour le Gouvernement qu’ils faisaient Cette
opération, en conséquence Je vous [expédie?] les [mille Rᵗ?] [un mot incertain] et Je fournirai par un petit [un mot incertain] les 11000 f
[auxquels?] les [décomptes?] des porteurs de la Caisse de Service [quelques mots incertains] puisque C’est eux qui
[un mot incertain] les frais au [franc?] pour Cette opération : tout à vous [paraphe]
les affaires des [anglois?] [se font ils?] plus au
[un mot incertain] ?

Notes

Documentary annotation: 20? [marge gauche]

Letter text and dated postscript

English translation

Please, my dear friend, subscribe Matthieu to the Moniteur and the Journal des Débats for three months from 1 March, at the following address:
Mr Matthieu, Inspector of Reviews, Intendant [physical loss], of Hesse, at Cassel in Hesse.

Yesterday I accompanied his wife to Frankfurt, from where she [physical loss], with [a few words uncertain]. Send me a [a few words uncertain] in [one word uncertain]. The bankers at Frankfurt, how [a few words uncertain], to make an offer for gold; yet I know that at this moment. It is still one of the [uncertain] places where I do the most business.

We lost many men in the last action. Augereau’s corps is said to be reduced to nearly 4,000 men who will be absorbed into the other corps. Augereau himself is also suffering greatly, even more from his rheumatism than from his wounds.

If Desprez is so firmly in the saddle, how is it that his paper is negotiated only at ten to twelve per cent, while all the others go at four or five?

Good day; I embrace you with all [my heart?].
[flourish]

[Addition beneath the final sentence]
Today I have nineteen million in [portfolio?]; there are only you and the Public Treasury whom I pay [one word deleted].

16 March 1807.
[Despeau?], physician at the military hospital here, is very ill; I think he is dying. One must not let [Mafau?] miss this, and there would not be a moment to lose if one had in advance [sent someone?] to [one word uncertain] or to the current Minister, as well as to you. You should [deleted word] carefully obtain your information in advance, to know whom to approach in Paris at the ministry, and work energetically and at the right moment. Nothing would suit him better than this position.

I asked [Gontard?] how they did business when returning [paper] to the Bank. [Baudrant?] says that they found almost no advantage in it and that it was almost for the Government that they carried out this transaction. Consequently I [send?] you the [thousand Rᵗ?] [one word uncertain], and I shall supply the 11,000 francs by a small [uncertain word], [to which?] the [statements?] of the holders of the Service Cash Office [a few words uncertain], since it is they who [one word uncertain] the expenses at [the franc?] for this transaction. Entirely yours.
[flourish]
Do the business dealings of the [English?] [take place more?] at [one word uncertain]?

Notes

Documentary annotation: 20? [left margin]
The postscript is dated 16 March 1807. Original paper loss cuts line endings near the upper right.

Address panel

Original transcript

A Monsieur
Broumer Directeur des
Livres de la banque

Address panel

English translation

To Mr Broumer,
Director of the Books
at the Bank.

Notes

Original paper loss along the upper edge and surviving paper seal; faint mirror writing is show-through.

Discovery Terms

Reiset–Broumer Correspondence
Newspaper subscriptions
Matthieu
War reports
Financial correspondence
Military hospital

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