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type: Letter
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title: Postcard from Société Anonyme des Magasins Généraux et Docks Réunis to Vieil-Picard & Cie, Maison Pernod Fils acknowledging a letter and recording a corresponding credit, May 11, 1907
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identifier: NRA-L-000359
description: The Société Anonyme des Magasins Généraux et Docks Réunis in Nancy acknowledges Vieil-Picard & Cie's letter of May 7 and records the corresponding credit; J. Poirson signs for the managing director.
date: 1907-05-11
temporal: Nancy, le 11 mai 1907
sort date: 1907-05-11
item sequence: 000359
type: Commercial correspondence
type: Postcard
language: French
language: fr
creator: Société Anonyme des Magasins Généraux et Docks Réunis
recipient: Vieil-Picard & Cie, Maison Pernod Fils
place sent: Nancy, France
spatial: Nancy, France
spatial: Pontarlier, France
subject: Business correspondence
subject: Acknowledgements
subject: Credits
subject: Warehouses
subject: Docks
subject: J. Poirson
subject: Société Anonyme des Magasins Généraux et Docks Réunis
subject: Vieil-Picard & Cie
subject: Maison Pernod Fils
subject: Nancy
subject: Pontarlier
incipit: SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX ET DOCKS RÉUNIS @fr
public transcript: [[label: Address panel and postal evidence]] CARTE POSTALE Messieurs Vieil-Picard & Cie Maison Pernod fils à Pontarlier Doubs [[notes]] Postal marks: [Partial circular postmark, top center:] PONTARLIER / [illegible] [Circular postmark, center right:] NANCY / 18 5 / 11 - 5 / 07 / MTHE ET MLLE [Circular postmark, right, over stamp:] NANCY / 18 5 / 11 - 5 / 07 / MTHE ET MLLE [Red postage stamp, top right:] REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / 10c [Partial circular postmark, bottom right:] PONTARLIER / [illegible] @fr
public transcript: [[label: Message text]] SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX ET DOCKS RÉUNIS NANCY DOCKS NANCÉIENS et Nouveaux Docks « Capit » Nancy, le 11 mai 1907 Messieurs, Nous avons bien reçu votre estimée du 7 mai et vous avons donné crédit de conformité. Veuillez agréer, Messieurs, nos salutations empressées. p.p. l'Administrateur délégué, J. Poirson [[notes]] Postal marks: [Partial circular postmark, top left:] [illegible] @fr
public translation: [[label: Address panel and postal evidence]] POSTCARD Messrs Vieil-Picard & Co. Maison Pernod fils Pontarlier Doubs [[notes]] Postal marks: [Partial circular postmark, top center:] PONTARLIER / [illegible] [Circular postmark, center right:] NANCY / 18 5 / 11 - 5 / 07 / MTHE ET MLLE [Circular postmark, right, over stamp:] NANCY / 18 5 / 11 - 5 / 07 / MTHE ET MLLE [Red postage stamp, top right:] REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE / 10c [Partial circular postmark, bottom right:] PONTARLIER / [illegible]
public translation: [[label: Message text]] SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME DES MAGASINS GÉNÉRAUX ET DOCKS RÉUNIS NANCY DOCKS NANCÉIENS and New “Capit” Docks Nancy, 11 May 1907 Gentlemen, We have duly received your letter of 7 May and have credited you accordingly. Please accept, Gentlemen, our earnest greetings. for the Managing Director, J. Poirson [[notes]] Postal marks: [Partial circular postmark, top left:] [illegible]
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provenance: Private collection, Neruda Archives.
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bibliographic citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000359.
research status: Both complete postcard captures, address-first documentary order, transcription, complete English translation, names, dates, quantities, postal evidence and public metadata were directly image-checked; any materially uncertain reading remains explicitly qualified. Date evidence: The manuscript dateline states Nancy, le 11 mai 1907. Origin evidence: The dateline, business cachet and postal evidence identify the place of origin.
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translation status: Image-checked English translation
date certainty: Exact
extent: 2 documentary sides: Address panel and postal evidence; Message text; 2 digital images.

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