National loan, newspaper notices and... (1831)

NRA-L-000883 / 1831

National loan, newspaper notices and accounts — Paris, 20 April 1831

Instructions to consult the prefect about daily or weekly newspaper notices in Périgueux. The writer describes a delay of ten to fifteen days before district funds reach the general receivership and a national loan at 84 francs. A marginal request directs twenty francs to the Sisters of Mercy.

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NRA-L-000883

NRA-L-000883 image 1 showing a dated handwritten letter with marginal arithmetic, a left margin note, cancellations and a dense lower addition. — **Image 1**Letter with marginal calculations - Paris, 20 April 1831.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000883
Date: 1831-04-20
Original date: Paris 20 avril 1831
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 1 documentary side: Letter with marginal calculations - Paris, 20 April 1831; 1 digital image.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000883.

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Transcript and English translation

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Letter with marginal calculations - Paris, 20 April 1831

Original transcript

Paris 20 avril 1831

Je reçois V. lettre d’hier.
Vous me renvoyez la note relative à l’affaire
[Brioque?] avec les pièces qui composent sa liasse,
J’en ferai l’usage nécessaire.
Je tâcherai de soigner l’épreuve de la [C.?] d’Epargne.
[barré : toutes]
—
Je vois une [Rte?] de 4,000 f pʳ l’Emprunt national.
Vous suivrez les Instructions à cet égard, seulement je désire
qu’il soit [toujours, barré] donné avis aux Journaux de Périgueux,
Moulainy pourra s’entendre avec le Préfet pʳ savoir s’il [mot barré]
[ligne barrée non déchiffrée]
désire que ces insertions se fassent tous les jours ou s’il
ne suffiroit pas d’une note par Semaine.
Je vois votre envoi N° 51.
D’après la lettre de mon frère, les [retards?] de la Dordogne
en font partie considérable [quoi qu’on puisse faire?], il faut compter
que les Percepteurs dans les arrondissements ne [ramènent?]
les fonds à la Recette Générale que 10 et peut être 15 jours
après, d’ailleurs rien ne précipite.
Vous verrez par les écritures que l’Emprunt est
décidément fait à 84 f, Je vous donnerai la note
de sommes particulières que j’y trouve, c’est
20,000 f pʳ mon Compte et 25 à 26 000 f. pʳ divers dont Je vous
remettrai les noms pʳ les [Contrats?]. Tout à vous.

[Dans la marge gauche :]
Je prie M. Bourgeois
d’envoyer une pièce
de 20 f à mad. la
[Bne?] Dupont de laporte
pour la quête en faveur
des Religieuses de
miséricorde.

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Petite marque soulignée en haut à gauche.]
Documentary annotation: [Calcul dans la marge gauche :]
98 act
3 » [d’...?]
101
9 vendu le 7 [févr.?]
92.
4 act.
vendu le 8 [févr.?]
5 act.
9

Letter with marginal calculations - Paris, 20 April 1831

English translation

Paris, 20 April 1831.

I receive your letter of yesterday.
You are returning to me the note relating to the [Brioque?] affair, together with the papers making up its bundle. I shall make the necessary use of it.
I shall try to attend to the proof of the [C.?] d’Epargne [abbreviated designation, apparently concerning savings].
[crossed out: all]
—
I see a [Rte?; abbreviation uncertain] of 4,000 francs for the national loan.
You will follow the instructions in this regard; I only wish notice to be given to the newspapers of Périgueux [“always” crossed out]. Moulainy can confer with the Prefect to find out whether he [crossed-out word and undeciphered crossed-out line] wishes these insertions to be made every day, or whether one notice a week would suffice.
I see your Dispatch No. 51.
According to my brother’s letter, the [arrears?] of the Dordogne form a considerable part of it, [whatever one may do?]. One must allow that the tax collectors in the districts will not [bring?] the funds to the General Receivership until ten, and perhaps fifteen, days later. Besides, there is nothing pressing.
You will see from the accounts that the loan has definitely been concluded at 84 francs. I shall give you the list of individual sums that I find there: namely, 20,000 francs for my own account and 25,000 to 26,000 francs for various parties, whose names I shall send you for the [contracts?]. Entirely yours.

[In the left margin:]
I ask Mr Bourgeois to send a twenty-franc coin to Madame [Bne?; title uncertain] Dupont de Laporte for the collection for the Sisters of Mercy.

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Small underlined mark at upper left.]
Documentary annotation: [Calculation in the left margin:]
98 shares
3 ditto [word undeciphered]
101
9 sold on 7 [February?]
92
4 shares
sold on 8 [February?]
5 shares
9
The abbreviated names and the designation of the loan documents are uncertain. The faint closing reads “Tout à vous”. The appeal in the left margin is for the Religieuses de miséricorde.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
National loan
Newspapers
Accounting
Correspondence

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