Letter from Vve Gruet & Pitte to Otard Dupuy & Compagnie, 1800-01-10
A letter from Orléans acknowledging six pieces of old eau-de-vie and urgently ordering a pipe aged eighteen to twenty years from Otard Dupuy & Compagnie, with price negotiations between 16 and 18.
Commercial correspondence
French
Vve Gruet & Pitte
Otard Dupuy & Cie
Otard Dupuy & Compagnie
Orléans
Cognac
Orléans–Cognac
Cognac trade
Otard Dupuy
Eau-de-vie
Orders
Prices
River transport
France — domestic trade
M.rs Otard Dupuy & Comp.ie Orléans 20 nivôse 8.e
[[label: Address panel]] Citoyens Otard Dupuy & Ce Negts A Cognac
[[label: Documentary page 2]] M.rs Otard Dupuy & Comp.ie Orléans 20 nivôse 8.e Cognac / Messieurs Ayant annoncé les prix du 18 c.t depuis le temps qu'il fait notre Rivière n'a été [passage incertain], et sans [passage incertain concernant le transport fluvial] seront rendus à Chatellerault, il nous tarde bien de l'apprendre Nous venons de recevoir les 6 pièces d'eau-de-vie vieille dont nous sommes très satisfaits de leur qualité, Veuillez nous envoyer de suite une pipe d'eau-de-vie vieille de 18 à 20 ans que vous nous aviez séquestrée tâchez de nous la passer à 16 ou 17, et si vous ne pouvez le faire veuillez nous la facturer à 18.tt sur ce que nous vous laissons arbitre mais nous espérons que vous la mettrez à 17. au plus, faites nous S.V.P. l'envoy le plus [tôt?] étant pressés, Salut nous sommes frères Vve Gruet & Pitte
[[label: Address panel]] Citizens Otard Dupuy & Co. Merchants At Cognac
[[label: Documentary page 2]] Messrs. Otard Dupuy & Co., Cognac. Orléans, 20 Nivôse, Year VIII [10 January 1800]. Gentlemen, Having announced prices on the 18th current, [uncertain passage concerning the state of the river and transport to Châtellerault]. We are very eager to learn that they have arrived at Châtellerault. We have just received the six pieces of old eau-de-vie, with whose quality we are very satisfied. Please send us at once a pipe of old eau-de-vie aged eighteen to twenty years, which you had set aside for us. Try to let us have it at 16 or 17; if you cannot, invoice it to us at 18. We leave this to your judgment, but hope you will put it at 17 at most. Please dispatch it as soon as possible, as we are in haste. Greetings; we are, brothers, Vve Gruet & Pitte.
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Both complete captures, Republican-calendar dateline, Orléans evidence, Otard Dupuy recipient layer and normalized date were directly image-checked. Date evidence: P002 dateline in the French Republican calendar; 20 Nivôse Year VIII corresponds to 10 January 1800. Origin evidence: Dateline on P002 and ORLEANS postal mark on P001. Recipient layers: postal addressee — Otard Dupuy & Cie; textual addressee — Otard Dupuy & Compagnie.
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2 documentary sides: Documentary page 1; Documentary page 2; 2 digital images.