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type: Letter
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title: Letter from Chas. Jones to Otard Dupuy & Co withdrawing a brandy order because of high prices, 1820-06-27
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identifier: NRA-L-000441
description: Chas. Jones acknowledges Otard Dupuy & Co's report on the brandy market and withdraws his order rather than pay a high price without a clear cause, while expressing willingness to renew it under more favourable conditions.
date: 1820-06-27
temporal: London 27 June 1820
sort date: 1820-06-27
item sequence: 000441
type: Commercial correspondence
language: English
language: en
creator: Chas. Jones
recipient: Otard Dupuy & Co
recipient: Otard & Co.
place sent: London, England
spatial: London, England
spatial: Cognac, Charente, France
spatial: London–Cognac
subject: Cognac trade
subject: Commercial correspondence
subject: Brandy orders
subject: Order withdrawal
subject: Brandy prices
subject: Chas. Jones
subject: Otard Dupuy & Co
subject: London
subject: Otard Dupuy
subject: Britain
incipit: London 27 June 1820
public transcript: [[label: Address panel]] Messrs Otard Dupuy & Co. Cognac Charente France [[notes]] Editorial notes: Address and historical trade-house wording were checked against the authoritative address-panel image and are preserved as one entity.
public transcript: [[label: Letter text - page 1]] London 27 June 1820 Messrs Otard & Co. Cognac. Gentlemen I recd your favor of the 16th Instant by which I observe the state of your Brandy market, but as I should be unwilling to pay a high price unless some real cause existed, I shall beg to withdraw my order for the present, it will however give me much pleasure in renewing it at some more favourable period. I remain Gentlemen your Obdt Servt Chas Jones
public translation: [[label: Address panel]] Messrs Otard Dupuy & Co. Cognac Charente France [[notes]] Editorial notes: Address and historical trade-house wording were checked against the authoritative address-panel image and are preserved as one entity.
public translation: [[label: Letter text - page 1]] London 27 June 1820 Messrs Otard & Co. Cognac. Gentlemen I recd your favor of the 16th Instant by which I observe the state of your Brandy market, but as I should be unwilling to pay a high price unless some real cause existed, I shall beg to withdraw my order for the present, it will however give me much pleasure in renewing it at some more favourable period. I remain Gentlemen your Obdt Servt Chas Jones
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rights holder: Neruda Archives
bibliographic citation: Neruda Archives, NRA-L-000441.
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: The dateline reads London 27 June 1820 and the signature reads Chas Jones. Origin evidence: London is written in the dateline. Recipient layers: postal addressee — Otard Dupuy & Co; textual addressee — Otard & Co.
transcription status: Image-checked raw transcription
translation status: Image-checked English translation
catalogue period: 1800–1824
date certainty: Exact
extent: 2 documentary sides: Address panel and postal evidence; Letter text - page 1; 2 digital images.

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