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type: Letter
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title: Letter from Alexander Paterson to James Hennessy & Co, 1852-01-29
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identifier: NRA-L-000401
description: Alexander Paterson reports payments and shipments of pale brandy for Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leith, including consignments carried by the Rhine and Urania.
date: 1852-01-29
temporal: Leith 29th January 1852
sort date: 1852-01-29
item sequence: 000401
type: Commercial correspondence
language: English
language: en
creator: Alexander Paterson
recipient: James Hennessy & Co
place sent: Leith
spatial: Leith
spatial: Cognac
spatial: Leith–Cognac
subject: Cognac trade
subject: Hennessy
subject: Pale brandy
subject: Shipping
subject: Leith
subject: Edinburgh
subject: Glasgow
subject: Rhine
subject: Urania
subject: Britain
incipit: Leith 29th January 1852
public transcript: [[label: Address panel]] Messrs James Hennessy & Co Cognac France
public transcript: [[label: Letter text, first page]] Leith 29th January 1852 Messrs James Hennessy & Co, Cognac, Dear Sirs, I last addressed you 25th Ulto and 16th Inst. I wrote your Mr Augustus Hennessy, 10 Rue de la Concorde, St Honoré, Paris, yesterday, advising my having debited you 20th Inst £55.13/- paid Revd Berkeley Addison, for account of Mr Maurice Hennessy, whom I had the pleasure of seeing yesterday, all well. Please ship per first vessel to Leith for, James Balfour Esqr, Wine Co of Scotland, } Edinburgh, 2 Hhds pale Brandy at f110 — same as last per Cairngorum — about 4% Under Proof. The Rhine Gem are still discharging — tomorrow I expect to forward per Railway under bond the 2 Hhds for Gibb & Bruce for which I shall draw on them at 3 months @ 13/- per Gallon in Glasgow. The Urania has sailed for Charente to take the berth for Leith — I am always, Dear Sirs, Sincerely Yours, Alex. Paterson (P.T.O.)
public transcript: [[label: Letter text, continuation]] 30th I have to-day forwarded Gibb & Bruce, under bond per Edinr & Glasgow Railway their 2 Hhds pale Brandy ex Rhine — GB No 1557. 59. 57 lins 1.3 u/p " " 1558. 59. 57 " 1.3 u/p 114 Gallons @ 13/- per Gn delivered £74.2.— I shall draw to-day at 3 months for same in that sum, and send you by thye note of Freight &c on thame. Please ship Messrs Wauchope Moodie & Hope, Leith, per first ship to Leith — 1 Cask pale Brandy, @ f280 — mild — 1 " do " , C f140 — about Proof or 1% u/p 1 " Colored " , C " 140 — " do. AP
public translation: [[label: Address panel]] Messrs James Hennessy & Co Cognac France
public translation: [[label: Letter text, first page]] Leith 29th January 1852 Messrs James Hennessy & Co, Cognac, Dear Sirs, I last addressed you 25th Ulto and 16th Inst. I wrote your Mr Augustus Hennessy, 10 Rue de la Concorde, St Honoré, Paris, yesterday, advising my having debited you 20th Inst £55.13/- paid Revd Berkeley Addison, for account of Mr Maurice Hennessy, whom I had the pleasure of seeing yesterday, all well. Please ship per first vessel to Leith for, James Balfour Esqr, Wine Co of Scotland, } Edinburgh, 2 Hhds pale Brandy at f110 — same as last per Cairngorum — about 4% Under Proof. The Rhine Gem are still discharging — tomorrow I expect to forward per Railway under bond the 2 Hhds for Gibb & Bruce for which I shall draw on them at 3 months @ 13/- per Gallon in Glasgow. The Urania has sailed for Charente to take the berth for Leith — I am always, Dear Sirs, Sincerely Yours, Alex. Paterson (P.T.O.)
public translation: [[label: Letter text, continuation]] 30th I have to-day forwarded Gibb & Bruce, under bond per Edinr & Glasgow Railway their 2 Hhds pale Brandy ex Rhine — GB No 1557. 59. 57 lins 1.3 u/p " " 1558. 59. 57 " 1.3 u/p 114 Gallons @ 13/- per Gn delivered £74.2.— I shall draw to-day at 3 months for same in that sum, and send you by thye note of Freight &c on thame. Please ship Messrs Wauchope Moodie & Hope, Leith, per first ship to Leith — 1 Cask pale Brandy, @ f280 — mild — 1 " do " , C f140 — about Proof or 1% u/p 1 " Colored " , C " 140 — " do. AP
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bibliographic citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000401.
research status: Every complete capture, documentary role, address panel, date, names, commercial evidence and postal evidence was directly checked against the authoritative images; unresolved readings remain explicitly marked. Date evidence: Dateline on P002; the continuation on P003 is dated the 30th. Origin evidence: Dateline on P002 and LEITH postal mark on P001.
transcription status: Image-checked raw transcription
translation status: Image-checked English translation
catalogue period: 1850–1874
date certainty: Exact
extent: 3 documentary sides: Address panel and postal evidence; Letter text, first page; Letter text, continuation; 3 digital images.

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