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type: Letter
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title: Letter to G. Gautier l'aîné concerning timber prices
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identifier: NRA-L-000387
description: An undated commercial note to G. Gautier l'aîné in Cognac listing current prices for Silesian and Brandenburg pipe staves and the bank agio applied to cash payment.
date: undated
sort date: undated
item sequence: 000387
type: Commercial correspondence
language: French
language: fr
recipient: G. Gautier l'aîné
place sent: Hamburg
spatial: Hamburg
spatial: Cognac
spatial: Hamburg–Cognac
subject: Cognac trade
subject: Gautier
subject: Timber trade
subject: Pipe staves
subject: Prices
subject: Hamburg
incipit: Pipaille de Silesie de 5 1/2 Pieds d'jcy Mls 360 a 370 Court. @fr
public transcript: [[label: Address panel]] A Monsieur Monsieur G. Gautier Lainé Negt. à Coignac @fr
public transcript: [[label: Letter text and commercial notes]] Pipaille de Silesie de 5 1/2 Pieds d'jcy Mls 360 a 370 Court. do . . . . . . . do . . . . 4 1/2 do . . . . . . . . 250 a 260. do Pipaille du Brandebourg de 5 1/2 Pieds Mls 330 a 350 do do . . . . . . . do . . . . . . . 4 1/2 Pieds . . 230 a 240 do. N.B. Le Bois Se vend jcy en argent Courant et Se paye Comptant en Banque a 15 a 16 p% d'agio Bien de mes Compliments S.V.P. a Monsieur Sysling toute sa famille se porte parfaittemt. bien @fr
public translation: [[label: Address panel]] To Mr. Mr. G. Gautier the Elder Merchant in Cognac
public translation: [[label: Letter text and commercial notes]] Silesian pipe staves of 5 1/2 feet here Mls 360 to 370 current. ditto . . . . . . . ditto . . . . 4 1/2 ditto . . . . . . . . 250 to 260. ditto Brandenburg pipe staves of 5 1/2 feet Mls 330 to 350 ditto ditto . . . . . . . ditto . . . . . . . 4 1/2 feet . . 230 to 240 ditto. N.B. Wood is sold here in current money and is paid cash in Bank at 15 to 16 percent agio Many of my compliments please to Mr. Sysling all his family is perfectly well
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provenance: Private collection, Neruda Archives.
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rights holder: Neruda Archives
bibliographic citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000387.
research status: Both complete captures, address panel, Hamburg postal evidence, price list, recipient and undated status were directly checked against all four reading variants. Date evidence: No dateline is visible. The P001 docket includes 29 avril, R 10 May and 1754, but this filing and receipt evidence is not treated as the letter date. Origin evidence: Inferred from the HAMBOURG postal mark and Hamburg docket on P001; no dateline is present.
transcription status: Image-checked raw transcription
translation status: Image-checked English translation
catalogue period: Undated
date certainty: Unknown
extent: 2 documentary sides: Address panel and postal evidence; Letter text and commercial notes; 2 digital images.

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