Loan instalments and settlement of a... (1830)

NRA-L-000873 / 1830

Loan instalments and settlement of a claim on the Reiset estate, 29 April (written year 1830)

A Paris letter applying an annuity sale to a loan in tenths and accounting for a claim of 1,325.65 on the Reiset estate. It also requests information on Lamotte & Co. in Le Havre and instructs the correspondent on remittances to the bank. The dateline gives 1830, but the interest calculation extends to March 1831.

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NRA-L-000873

NRA-L-000873 image 1 showing a handwritten letter dated 29 April with extensive financial calculations; the written year remains under review. — **Image 1**Letter opening dated 29 April with financial calculations.

NRA-L-000873 image 2 showing the continuation and closing signature of the letter dated 29 April, with original folds and reverse-side show-through. — **Image 2**Letter continuation and closing signature.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000873
Date: 1830-04-29
Original date: Paris29avril1830
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Letter opening dated 29 April with financial calculations; Letter continuation and closing signature; 2 digital images.
Signature: [Henry?]
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000873.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Letter opening dated 29 April with financial calculations

Original transcript

Paris 29 avril 1830.

Ci-joint ma lettre Spéciale relative à ma participation
à l’Emprunt.
Voici Bordereau de Vente de 5000 f de rentes à imputer
en dixièmes sur l’Emprunt que je ne payerai que par 10.mes et
provisoirement sur les besoins de la liquidation.
Voici Lettre de [Haas?], Je lui réponds directement en
promettant [accueil?] à son mandat de 95.60 et lui adresse
une [mot rayé] quittance timbrée pour solde de ma créance sur la
Succession Reiset [débitrice envers moi?] de 1325.65
valeur au 30 avril qu’il doit me donner, savoir

Elle me devait 6,635 au 1 Janv. 1830
387. Intˢ pris jusqu’au 1 mars 1831
————
7022
Reçu d’acompte — 5707.28 le 28 fév.
————
reste 1,314.72
10.93 Intˢ au 30 avril
————
1,325.65

dans mes livres le solde de ce Compte au 1.er Janv. n’est que
√ de 6966.75.
√ 5707.28 [mots biffés] au débit de [Haas?]
————
√ 1259.47 Il faut écrire
66.18 par Cᵗᵉ d’Intérêts
————
et √ 1325.65 au débit de [Haas?] pᵣ solde suivant ma quittance
pour solde du 30 avril.

Donnez moi donc toujours le solde de mes [Cᵗᵉˢ?] suspendus en tête des
valeurs, Je vous prie :
Procurez moi des renseignements sur la maison Lamotte & Cie au
havre le plus tôt possible.
Je reçois

[Calcul séparé dans la marge gauche]
1,542,056.41
755,680.44
————
786,375.97

Notes

Documentary annotation: [signe souligné en haut à gauche]

Letter opening dated 29 April with financial calculations

English translation

Paris, 29 April 1830 [year as written; the account below runs to 1831].

Enclosed is my separate letter about my participation in the Loan.
Here is the sale statement for 5,000 francs of annuities, to be applied in tenths against the Loan. I shall only pay for it in tenths and, for the time being, as the settlement requires.
Here is [Haas’s?] letter. I am answering him directly, promising [to honour?] his order for 95.60, and sending him a [word crossed out] stamped receipt in settlement of my claim on the Reiset estate, [which owes me?] 1,325.65, value 30 April. He must give me that amount, as follows.

It owed me 6,635 on 1 January 1830.
387 in interest taken up to 1 March 1831.
Total 7,022.
Received on account on 28 February, 5,707.28.
Balance 1,314.72.
Interest to 30 April, 10.93.
Total 1,325.65.

In my books the balance of this account on 1 January is only:
✓ 6,966.75.
✓ 5,707.28 [words crossed out] debited to [Haas?].
✓ 1,259.47. The following entry must be made:
66.18 through the interest account,
and ✓ 1,325.65 to the debit of [Haas?] in settlement, in accordance with my receipt in full dated 30 April.

Please always give me the balance of my suspended [accounts?] at the head of the list of securities.
Obtain information for me as soon as possible about the firm of Lamotte & Co. in Le Havre.
I have received

[Separate calculation in the left margin]
1,542,056.41
755,680.44
Difference 786,375.97.

Notes

Documentary annotation: [underlined mark at upper left]
The dateline reads 1830. The interest calculation runs to March 1831. Both dates are transcribed as written. The expansion of some abbreviations and the name Haas are tentative.

Letter continuation and closing signature

Original transcript

V. lettre d’hier.
il ne faudra pas attendre tout l’Encaissement des [97,443.90?]
de la banque pour lui faire des retours, renvoyez moi le
Bordereau de la banque je vous dirai comment échelonner ces
retours.
je vois Bourgeois [tellement?] [biffé : trop] surchargé de la partie, ma foy
remettez le [Dépôt?] de Douane à la banque, Je m’expliquerai avec
elle à mon retour.
oui c’est moi, [D…?] Reiset qu’il faut débiter des 500 f sur [Dieppe?]
Mille amitiés      [d’escompte?]
[Henry?]

Letter continuation and closing signature

English translation

your letter of yesterday.
You need not wait for the bank’s entire [97,443.90?] to be collected before making return remittances to it. Send me back the bank’s statement and I shall tell you how to stagger those remittances.
I see that Bourgeois is [so?] [crossed out: too] overburdened with this business. Well then, give the customs [deposit?] to the bank. I shall explain matters to it on my return.
Yes, it is I, [D…?] Reiset, who should be debited with the 500 francs on [Dieppe?].
A thousand friendly wishes.       [of discount?]
[Henry?]

Notes

The bank’s figure has been overwritten. The abbreviated designation beside the closing and the autograph remain uncertain.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
Loan participation
Rente
Accounting
Securities

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