Instructions for Treasury drafts and... (1831)

NRA-L-000868 / 1831

Instructions for Treasury drafts and remittances — Paris, May 1831

Letter discussing a banking arrangement and instructions for regular Treasury drafts and remittances.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000868

NRA-L-000868 image 1 showing a handwritten Paris letter dated May 1831, with uncertain day (1 or 4), financial instructions, folds and a closing signature or paraph. — **Image 1**Letter text and signature - Paris, May 1831; day uncertain (1 or 4).

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000868
Date: 1831-05
Original date: Paris[4/1?]mai1831
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 1 documentary side: Letter text and signature - Paris, May 1831; day uncertain (1 or 4); 1 digital image.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000868.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Letter text and signature - Paris, May 1831; day uncertain (1 or 4).

Original transcript

Paris [4/1?] mai 1831.

Je reçois V. lettre d’hier.
J’ai réglé avec [Chaulet?]
Je viens de convenir avec M. Rodier de la banque que Je
lui remettrai à fur et à mesure des Échéances au lieu de les
réunir à une Échéance Commune.
ainsi vous lui remettrez tous les 5 Jours une traite sur
le Trésor sur papier timbré à 90 Jours pour le montant des
effets échus, faites lui votre 1.ere Remise le 6, la seconde le 11,
ainsi de suite, et j’aurai un Compte d’Intérêts à 5 f % qui
portera le 1/3 à mon Crédit et que Je solderai à la fin pʳ
cet appoint.
Je vois le [Vers.t?] de [Guet?] de 850 f.
V. me remettez 36000 f sur [deux mots biffés] [Dourfaut?]
Je ferai cette remise ces Jours ci. oui il vous remettra
encore les 38000 f.
Je vois V. Envoi N.o 63.
Je ne puis répondre au reste aujourd’huy
Mille amitiés
[paraphe]

Notes

Documentary annotation: a? [souligné en haut à gauche]

Letter text and signature - Paris, May 1831; day uncertain (1 or 4).

English translation

Paris, [4/1?] May 1831.

I have received your letter of yesterday.
I have settled with [Chaulet?].
I have just agreed with Mr Rodier of the bank that I shall remit to him as the bills fall due, instead of combining them at a common maturity.
You will therefore remit to him every five days a draft on the Treasury on stamped paper, payable at ninety days, for the amount of the bills that have fallen due. Make your first remittance on the 6th and the second on the 11th, and so on. I shall have an interest account at five francs per hundred, which will carry the one-third to my credit and which I shall settle at the end with this balancing amount.
I see [Guet?’s] [payment?] of 850 francs.
You are remitting 36,000 francs to me on [two words crossed out] [Dourfaut?]. I shall make this remittance in the next few days. Yes, he will remit a further 38,000 francs to you.
I see your dispatch no.63.
I cannot reply to the rest today.
A thousand kind regards.
[paraph]

Notes

Documentary annotation: a? [underlined at the upper left]
The day and three surnames remain locally uncertain. The abbreviated word before the 850-franc entry is provisionally read as a payment. Two crossed-out words precede the provisional name Dourfaut. The notation 1/3 identifies a credit on the interest account without stating its basis in this sentence. A deduction of one-third per cent is recorded separately in NRA-L-000870.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
Financial correspondence
Treasury drafts
Banking
Remittances
Paris

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