Syndicate payments, account checks... (1831)

NRA-L-000897 / 1831

Syndicate payments, account checks and a claim — Paris, 6 April 1831

Letter concerning syndicate payments, annuities, account checks and correspondence about a financial claim.

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NRA-L-000897

NRA-L-000897 image 1 showing a dated handwritten letter with financial calculations, cancellations, marginal notes and original paper contours. — **Image 1**Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 6 April 1831.

NRA-L-000897 image 2 showing the letter continuation and closing, financial annotations, original folds and reverse-side show-through. — **Image 2**Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 6 April 1831.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000897
Date: 1831-04-06
Original date: Paris 6 avril 1831
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 6 April 1831; Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 6 April 1831; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000897.

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Transcript and English translation

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Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 6 April 1831

Original transcript

Paris 6 avril 1831.

J’ai versé au Syndicat
4,500 f dont 500 f Intérêts du Semestre sur 1000 f de Rentes
déposés pr le [libellé non déchiffré] d’adjudication
et 4000 — Dividendes.
Quel bonheur si toutes les entreprises réussissoient ainsi!
Voici encor un dépôt de
fr 1,500 de Rentes au dépôt extraordinaire du 25 — 23,575 — [signe]
Et à y joindre
[Chaulet?] antérieurement déjà — 74,934.56
Ensemble — 98,509.56
J’en déduis 60 f Rentes 3% achetées pour — 1,257.55
dont vous débiterez le Compte du [Comte?] Reiset
[abréviation et mot non déchiffrés].
[Total biffé]
Reste [vos fonds?] au Syndicat jusqu’à ce jour — 97,252.01
Voici Lettre de M. [Delap…?] d’[Angers?].
Veuillez leur répondre d’accord.
Vous avez à le créditer de 238.30
et de 353 —
et à le débiter de 10,582 —
plus de 108 —
[Accolade latérale: pr [M. J. Reiset?] S.C. antérieurement; pr [nom et libellé non déchiffrés]]
Veuillez ensuite me renvoyer la lettre et Bordereau.
Veuillez aussi me renvoyer les 6 Comptes joints après que
Laroche y aura porté tous les articles écrits depuis.
L’effet de 16000 f — acceptation [Quesney et Bachet?] est resté protesté, du reste
Cette maison m’a écrit et me fait espérer une prochaine rentrée.
Je reçois V. lettre d’hier, Je suis [charmé?] que vous n’ayez rien

Notes

Documentary annotation: [marque soulignée en haut à gauche]

Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 6 April 1831

English translation

Paris, 6 April 1831.

I paid the Syndicate 4,500 francs, comprising 500 francs of half-yearly interest on 1,000 francs of annuities deposited for the [undeciphered designation] of adjudication, and 4,000 in dividends.
How fortunate if all enterprises succeeded like this!
Here is a further deposit:
1,500 francs of annuities at the extraordinary deposit of the 25th: 23,575 [sign];
and to add to it, [Chaulet?] already previously: 74,934.56;
together: 98,509.56.
I deduct from it 60 francs of 3% annuities purchased for 1,257.55, with which you will debit the account of [Count?] Reiset [undeciphered abbreviation and word].
[Crossed-out total]
Remaining [your funds?] at the Syndicate up to this day: 97,252.01.
Here is a letter from Mr [Delap…?] of [Angers?]. Please reply to them in agreement. You have to credit him with 238.30 and 353, and debit him with 10,582, plus 108.
[Side brace: for [Mr J. Reiset?], S.C., previously; for [undeciphered name and designation]]
Please then return the letter and statement. Please also return the six enclosed accounts after Laroche has entered all the articles written since.
The 16,000-franc bill accepted by [Quesney and Bachet?] remained protested. Besides, that firm has written to me and gives me hope of funds coming in shortly.
I receive your letter of yesterday. I am [delighted?] that you have nothing

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Underlined mark at upper left]
The table retains the manuscript’s order. Certain names, deposit/account labels, abbreviations and one party designation in the quoted conditions remain locally uncertain and are marked. The six requested accounts are not identified with other surviving items.

Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 6 April 1831

Original transcript

avec [nom et abréviation incertains].
Je vois que [nom non déchiffré] n’a rien pu obtenir de M. [Bricout?], toutefois
Je l’engage à voir M. Aumont qui est membre du Comité de
Censure que j’ai fait nommer avant mon départ et qui doit se
réunir au moins une fois par mois pour vérifier Cette Comptabilité,
je crois que c’est avec M. [Malfilâtre?], Anquetin, [Doffy?] et je crois Decaze
aussi. Je croyois pouvoir me reposer sur eux.
Je n’ai pas encore eu le tems de m’occuper du Compte [nom non déchiffré].
Je réexaminerai le Compte Moreau.
Je remercie Mondary de sa lettre sur les 60 m f Moreau
mais la Copie que je reçois enfin de la délibération du Dépôt me
semble malheureusement trancher la question en faveur de Moreau.
Je croyois qu’elle disoit seulement pour garantie de ma gestion, mais
elle porte encor et des Conditions demandées par les [siens? / sieurs?], ce dont
Je ne me rappellois pas, et dès lors Je crains de n’être plus aussi
fondé dans ma demande, toutefois J’attends la Réponse de la
Commission et me déciderai en conséquence dans la suite de ma
réclamation. Tout à vous
Henry

Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 6 April 1831

English translation

with [uncertain name and abbreviation].
I see that [undeciphered name] has been unable to obtain anything from Mr [Bricout?]. Nevertheless I urge him to see Mr Aumont, who is a member of the oversight committee that I had appointed before my departure and which must meet at least once a month to verify these accounts. I believe it is with Mr [Malfilâtre?], Anquetin, [Doffy?] and, I think, Decaze too. I thought I could rely on them.
I have not yet had time to attend to the account of [undeciphered name]. I shall re-examine Moreau’s account.
I thank Mondary for his letter about the 60 m francs [abbreviation retained] Moreau. However, the copy of the resolution of the Depot that I finally receive unfortunately seems to settle the issue in Moreau’s favour. I thought it said only as security for my management, but it also states: and the conditions requested by [his people? / the gentlemen?], which I did not remember, and consequently I fear I may no longer be so well founded in my request. However, I await the Commission’s reply and shall decide accordingly on the further course of my claim.
Entirely yours,
Henry.

Notes

The table retains the manuscript’s order. Certain names, deposit/account labels, abbreviations and one party designation in the quoted conditions remain locally uncertain and are marked. The six requested accounts are not identified with other surviving items.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
Financial correspondence
Accounting
Annuities
Bills of exchange
Paris

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