Letter concerning syndicate accounts... (1831)

NRA-L-000899 / 1831

Letter concerning syndicate accounts, securities and financial instructions, 4 April 1831

A Paris letter with detailed account calculations, instructions concerning securities deposited with a syndicate, and requests for documents relating to a financial case.

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NRA-L-000899

NRA-L-000899 image 1 showing a dated handwritten letter with financial calculations, cancellations, marginal notes and original paper contours. — **Image 1**Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 4 April 1831.

NRA-L-000899 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 - 4 April 1831.

Archive Record

Identifier: NRA-L-000899
Date: 1831-04-04
Original date: Paris 4 avril 1831
Type: Correspondence
Language: French / fr
Sender: Unidentified sender
Places: Paris
Extent: 2 documentary sides: Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 4 April 1831; Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 4 April 1831; 2 digital images.
Citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000899.

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Transcript and English translation

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Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 4 April 1831

Original transcript

Paris 4 avril 1831.

Voici le Compte Chaulet pr la liquidation avec le Bordʳ. des [postes?] de frais.
Il présente un Solde en ma faveur de — 41,425 —
À vérifier Il me paroît juste.
Chaulet a payé depuis 1 Mᵗ O. [Leroy?]
308 (bois) / 319 fourrages — 627.
Reste — 40,798.
J’ai payé pour 16 actions de Bourgogne
à 61 f par action moins,
52.11 pour Intérêts échus,
reste — 8.89 Cy — 142.24.
J’ai été payé pour 20 des 4 Canaux
à 20.74 moins
22.18 à recevoir
net 1.44 par action — 28.80
[Total des deux postes] — 113.44
[Solde] — 40,684.56
Je lui ai remis en Effets auj. — 30,000 —
Il me doit — 70,684.56
plus les [mot biffé] arrérages des
6000 f 5% de mad. [Lemonn…?] — 3,000 —
et de 2500 à moi et à M. [Lod…?] — 1,250 —
Ensemble — 74,934.56.
Veuillez en passer écriture Conforme.

Je reçois V. lettre d’hier.
J’ai toutes les lettres du Syndicat.
Voici Celle du 18 mars avec le Bordereau des 293301.69 de
Valeurs qui me sont distribuées (vous m’envoyerez Copie du Bordereau).
Vous Créditerez le Syndicat de
f 172,762.50 — dividende réparti par le débit de liquidation Syndicale
293,301.69 — par le débit d’un Compte à ouvrir pour Valeurs en Dépôt au Syndicat.
Voici Celle du 25 mars relative à Haïti.
Vous Créditerez le Syndicat de
f 86,643.42 — par le débit d’Effets sur Paris. Pourtant je ne vous envoye pas les
Valeurs parcequ’elles sont au porteur, mais prenez les Écritures, en disant
reçu du Syndicat 3 bons du Trésor au porteur portant date du 26 février,
[série?] n°1094 de [28,881?] f au 1ʳ 7ᵇʳᵉ 1831. Il me donnera le N°
du portefeuille pour que je le mette sur ces valeurs.
Puis il mettra en portefeuille une Note qui portera : Remis à M.
Reiset à Paris [en Natᵉ?].

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Calcul marginal: 16; 8.89; 144; 128; 142.24; quelques chiffres auxiliaires incertains]

Letter with financial instructions - Paris, 4 April 1831

English translation

Paris, 4 April 1831.

Here is Chaulet’s account for the liquidation, with the schedule of [items?] of expenditure. It shows a balance of 41,425 in my favour. Check it; it appears correct to me. Chaulet has since paid an order drawn to the order of [Leroy?]: 308 for wood and 319 for fodder: 627. Balance: 40,798.
I paid for 16 Burgundy shares at 61 francs per share, less 52.11 for accrued interest, leaving 8.89 each: 142.24.
I received 20.74 each for 20 Four Canals shares, against 22.18 due: a net difference of 1.44 per share, or 28.80. Total of the two entries: 113.44. Balance: 40,684.56.
I handed him 30,000 in bills today. He owes me 70,684.56, plus the arrears on Madame [Lemonn…?]’s 6000 francs at 5%: 3000; and on 2,500 belonging to me and Mr [Lod…?]: 1250. Total: 74,934.56. Please enter this accordingly.
I have received your letter of yesterday. I have all the Syndicate’s letters. Here is the one of 18 March, with the schedule of 293,301.69 in securities allotted to me; you will send me a copy of the schedule. Credit the Syndicate with 172,762.50, a distributed dividend, debiting the syndicate liquidation, and 293,301.69, debiting an account to be opened for Securities Deposited with the Syndicate.
Here is its letter of 25 March relating to Haiti. Credit the Syndicate with 86,643.42, debiting Bills on Paris. I am not sending you the securities, because they are payable to bearer, but make the entries saying that three bearer Treasury notes were received from the Syndicate, dated 26 February, [series?] no. 1094 for [28,881?] francs for 1 September 1831. He will give me the portfolio number so that I can put it on these securities. Then he will put a note in the portfolio stating: Handed to Mr Reiset in Paris [in kind?].

Notes

Documentary annotation: [Marginal calculation: 16; 8.89; 144; 128; 142.24; some auxiliary figures uncertain]
The portfolio entry records the transfer of bearer Treasury notes to Reiset in Paris. The final label of the entry, a few names and a note amount remain qualified.

Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 4 April 1831

Original transcript

Le Syndicat sera ensuite Crédité pr Valeurs en Dépôt au Syndicat de
[231,719.04?] pour les 254,517 [petit chiffre .104?] annuités d’Haïti portés par la Lettre;
ainsi cette écriture sera passée.
Plus tard Je passerai les différences en perte sur la valeur des effets.
M. Bourgeois donnera 150 f à Demange pour ses appointemens de Mars,
le reste sera remis provisoirement.
Dites à Mondary que je ne suis pas invité par le
Commissaire des Fournisseurs de fournir mémoire sur mon
affaire, mais que Je lui envoye
le Traité du 15 mars 1830,
[ligne biffée : la Consultation de …]
et La Minute de la réponse de Moreau fils.
S’il croit y trouver les Éléments d’une Bonne défense en ma faveur,
il peut en aller Reparler au Maire qui préside toutes les Commissions.
Je ne puis retrouver votre Copie de Délibération, il est plus
Court de me la faire recopier que de me la faire rechercher partout.
Mille amitiés à [la pᵗᵉ?]. [paraphe]

Savez-vous que Moreau fˢ [aîné?] s’est brûlé la
Cervelle après de fortes pertes à la Bourse? où en suis-je avec lui.
n’avez-vous pas envoyé à [Loignon?] un effet pour lui?

Letter continuation, closing and additional annotations - 4 April 1831

English translation

The Syndicate will then be credited under Securities Deposited with the Syndicate with [231,719.04?], for the 254,517 [small figure .104?] in Haitian annuities stated in the letter; thus this entry will be made. Later I shall book the differences in the value of the bills as a loss.
Mr Bourgeois will give Demange 150 francs for his March salary; the remainder will be handed over provisionally. Tell Mondary that I have not been asked by the Commissioner for the Suppliers to submit a memorandum on my case, but I am sending him the agreement of 15 March 1830, [crossed-out line: the opinion of …], and the draft of Moreau junior’s reply. If he thinks he can find there the elements of a good defence in my favour, he may go and speak again to the Mayor, who presides over all the commissions.
I cannot find your copy of the deliberation. It is quicker to have it recopied for me than to have it searched for everywhere. A thousand kind regards to [the little one?]. [Paraph]
Do you know that Moreau fils [the elder?] shot himself in the head after heavy losses on the stock exchange? Where do I stand with him? Have you not sent [Loignon?] a bill for him?

Notes

The deposit figure and small subordinate numerical notation remain qualified. The postscript presents the news about Moreau as a question.

Discovery Terms

Reiset Correspondence 1831
Financial accounts
Securities
Syndicate liquidation

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