Letter concerning a porter’s wages... (1831)

NRA-L-000896 / 1831

Letter concerning a porter’s wages and household accounts, 7 April 1831

A Paris letter acknowledging correspondence and dispatch No.52, and giving instructions about a porter, firewood deliveries, wages and a gratuity.

Neruda Archives
NRA-L-000896

NRA-L-000896 image 1 showing the complete dated handwritten letter, financial amount, closing flourish and pale original sheet. — **Image 1**Letter - Paris, 7 April 1831.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000896
Date: 1831-04-07
Original date: Paris 7 avril 1831
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 1 documentary side: Letter - Paris, 7 April 1831; 1 digital image.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000896.

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Transcript and English translation

working scholarly aid

Letter - Paris, 7 April 1831.

Original transcript

Paris 7 avril 1831.

Voici Lettre de [Loyer?] et 54,543.10. Traite [qualification non déchiffrée].
J’ai reçu V. Lettre d’hier
et l’avis de V. envoi N°52.
Vous serez débarrassés du portier, vous pourrez [le tenir payé?]
mais il doit justifier de l’entrée des fagots reçus de [nom non déchiffré].
Il faudra aussi lui donner ses gages, il doit avoir [touché?]
M. Bourgeois les réglera, et comme du reste c’est un
brave garçon, il faudra lui payer le mois d’avril en entier
[abréviation] en gratification pour lui, remplissez la vacance
demain, Je ne le [sais?] pas, mais dites lui que je [mot biffé] n’ai
pas la fortune de M. [Riboud?].
Mille amitiés à la pᵗᵉ.
[paraphe]

Notes

Documentary annotation: [marque soulignée en haut à gauche]

Letter - Paris, 7 April 1831.

English translation

Paris, 7 April 1831.

Here is a letter from [Loyer?] and 54,543.10. Bill [undeciphered qualification].
I have received your letter of yesterday and the notice of your dispatch No.52.
You will be rid of the porter; you may [consider him paid?]. But he must account for the incoming bundles of firewood received from [undeciphered name]. He must also be given his wages; he must have [received?] [line ends here in the source]. Mr Bourgeois will settle them, and as he is otherwise a good fellow, he must be paid the whole month of April [abbreviation] as a gratuity for him. Fill the vacancy tomorrow. I do not [know?], but tell him that I [crossed-out word] do not have Mr [Riboud?]’s fortune.
A thousand kind regards to [the little one?].
[Initials]

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Underlined mark at upper left]
The likely reading sais in a brief personal aside and the expansion of the closing abbreviation pᵗᵉ are qualified. Other uncertain names, instrument description and local wage forms remain explicitly bracketed.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
Household accounts
Wages
Office correspondence

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