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Business letters: Europe, 1820-1891

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS JM/B6/7

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Letters from places in Europe other than Great Britain, including Turkey, with some from Egypt. There are 6,020 principal letters and 148 supplementary letters. The correspondents include the following names:

R.B. Abbott; L.G. Adam; A.K. Agélasto; Aguirravengoa fils y Uribarren; Charles Alexander & Co.; S. Aliotti; Aliotti Frères; J. Allard; A. Allievi; Captain George Cobham Anderson (Marine Superintendent, Jardine Matheson, Hong Kong); Anderson, Höber & Co.; Jean Baptiste André; Joseph André; Andris-Lambert & Co.; Federico Anduze; Federico Anduze & Co.; Anglo-Deutsche Bank; E. August Apel; William Reierson Arbuthnot (of Arbuthnot & Co., Madras); [ ] Arlès-Dufour; F. Arlès-Dufour; Gustave Arlès-Dufour; Arlès-Dufour & Co.; Acien Arlet; A. Armao; Nicolas Tanco Armero; G. Arnic & Co.; Asiatische Kuestenfahrt Gesellschaft; J.B. Astor; C.A. Auffm Ordt & Co.; C.A. Auffm Ordt, Sturmer & Co.; Hugh Piercy Austin (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Austrian Lloyds Steam Navigation Co.

P. Badaraux; Charles Bal; Edmond Bal; Georges Bal; Balguerie & Co.; Jules Balguerie; E. Ballen; Banca Generale, Rome; Banca Internazionale, Genoa; Banque Continentale de Londres, Marseilles; Banque Russe pour le Commerce Étranger, St Petersburg; Edward Barfield; Barfield & Shaw; B.A. Barretto & Co.; Edward Barrow (Director of Bureau Veritas); C. Barthe; C. Basiliady; Comte Léon de Bastard d'Estang; J. Bastide; Jules Bauer; John C. Baynton; Charles and Auguste Bazin; H. Beaupère; Niclas Beckman; Armand Béhic; August Behn; Z. Behrens; L. Behrens & Sons; James Bell & Co.; Pasquale, Benini & Co.; Victor Berchut; John Berenberg, Gossler & Co.; H. Bergasse & Co.; H. Berger & Co.; S. Bernadon; M. Berniard & Son; Berry & Ljungstedt; Mariano de Bertodano; Thomaz Maria Bessone (of Lisbon); G.H. Betts; Beysens & Beckers; G. Beyts & Co.; P. Bié; Bié, de Collogny & Co.; Bié père et fils; J. Bildstein; Steen Andersen Bille; V. Bizot; George & Robert Blackburn & Co.; George H. Blackburn, Temple & Co.; Blackburn, Temple & Robinson; Alexis Blanc; Henry P. Blanchard; Ernest Blancheton; Julius Bohstedt; Bollenhagen & Co.; Captain Charles James Bolton; Alphonse Bonnal; Bonnal, Whittall & Co.; A.S. Bonnet; N. Bonsignore; G. Borelli; A. Borja de Mozota; Borneo Company Ltd; Borreman Van Melckebeke & Co.; Horace Bouchet & Co.; H. Bouyer; John Charles Bowring; Briggs & Co.; Brightman & Co.; Francisco Bringas; Maria Francisca Bristow (Maria Francisca Ullman); Charles E. Broadhurst; Anatole Brosset; Lewis George Brown (Captain of the 5th Regiment of the Bombay Native Infantry); R.D. & J.L. Brown Jnr; Bruch-Foucher & Co.; C. Bruchaut & Co.; [ ] Eugénie Bruchet; Hans Bruhn Snr, Erben; H. Brunner; A. Bruyas; Eugene Buissonnet; G. Buissonnet; Francis Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson (also Francis Bulkeley Johnson, afterwards Bulkeley-Johnson); John Burd (Captain of the 'Norden' and 'Syden'); Bureau Veritas; Daniel Burton & Sons; T.L. Buswell; Charles Büttel; N. Buzutil; [ ] Bÿleveld.

L. Calvo & Co.; James Cameron; Colin Campbell (of Colin Campbell, Dent & Co.); A. Campbell & Co.; Colin Campbell, Dent & Co.; P. Camps & Co.; C.N. Caridia; Thomas Frederick Carter; Joseph Castello; H. Castilla (Captain of the 'Lamont' and 'River Bird'); [ ] Chamonard; L. Chamonard; S. Chamonard; C. Chapuisat; Chapuisat & Milsom; Charrin & Co.; Chartrons père et fils & Monnier; Jean Chastaing-Desgrand; A.E. Chaumier; F. Chenillon; H.G.O. Chese; Achille Chevrillon; F. Chevrillon; Chomel, Auvergne & Mollard; Claude Clerc & Co.; Adolphe Collin; Gustave Collin; Colombo & Co.; Compagnie d'Assurances Génerales Maritimes; Compagnie Française De Prêts à la Grosse; Compagnie Nationale de Navigation; Comptoir d'Escompte de Paris; Joaquim Jeronimo Martins Conceiro; Ysidro Conceyro; Hubert de Condé; A.G. Conighi; Frederick Conner; G.A. Conti; Domenico Copello (Captain of the S.S. 'Glensannox'); S. & M. Cornely; Frederico Cortese; A. le Corvier; William Cosens & Co.; Claudio Adriano da Costa; L. Couchoud; A. de Courcy (Compagnie Française De Prêts à la Grosse); Comte R. de Courcy (of the French Legation in China); Cowasjee Dinshaw & Brothers; Cramerus & Co.; Crédit Agricole; J. Creissac; C.A. Croockewit; Cumming, Wood & Co.; William Curtis (of the 'Hong Kong Times'); Cutler & Co.; Cutler, Palmer & Co.

Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft 'Swatow' (Companie de Navigation à vapeur 'Swatow'); John Davidson (Superintendent, P. & O., Malta); Elizabeth Catherine Day; Baron Deffrère de Peyrecave; Augustus Deinhard; [ ] Delapinière; Delbrück fils; Henry E. Denduyts; Gaspard Desbief; [ ] Desgrand; Louis Desgrand & Co.; Desgrand père et fils; Franz Dessauer; Alfred Anthony Des Voeux; Jules Devaux; P. Devèze; Dhavernas, Bloch & Co.; Mrs Dobrée; Thomas Dobrée; Thomas Dobrée & Ce; Thomas Dobrée, de Coninck & Co.; Dreyfus frères et Cie; Droche, Robins & Co.; [ ] Duboisviollette; Dubout ainé et ses fils; R. Duckworth & Co.; George Duddell; Duff, Gordon & Co.; Dumreicher Frères & Co.; Thomas Dunkin; Thomas Dunkin & Son; Gustave Duplaquet; Aimé Duplay; Duplay & Co.; Duplay & Repelin; Francisque Duplay; Du Roveray & Co.; A. Dutfoy; G. Dyckhoff & Co.

Echagaray & Fernandez; G. Eimbcke; Theodore and F. Eimbcke; D. Elfbrink; N. Elphinstone & Co.; W. Meyer Elton; Rodrigues Ely, fils ainé; Henry Collins Endicott; Stanislas d'Escrivan; Alexis Estrangin; Henri Estrangin; Alexander Ewing; Réné Eymard; Réné Eymard & Co.; A. Eymond & Delphin Henry.

Victor Faga; Fairlie, Bonham & Co.; Fairlie, Clark, Innis & Co.; Eugène Fajard; Johann Maria Farina; Lydia Mary Fay; J.B. Fehr & Prostmann; Irms. Ferreira; Joaquim Honorato Ferreira; Ferrieu & Co.; C. Festin; J.C. Fidao; F. Fidao & Co.; Finlay, Hodgson & Co.; Edward Fischer (agent of Jardine Matheson, Yokohama and Osaka); A. Flach; Fletcher & Co.; O. Flury-Hérard; Paul Flury-Hérald; P. Foureade & Combe; [ ] Fourmy (?); Carlos Fraisse; C.M. Fraissinet; Montheuil Franc, fils ainé; Emile Frenson.

Mrs K. Gains; Gamot & Co.; Garlon, Chaste & Pearson; J.L. Garros; Gaston Lermanos; J.R. Geigy; T. Geoffroy; De Gernon & Co.; Julius Giessen; E.J. Gingell & Co.; G. Girod; R. Goedelt; G.H. Gower & Co.; Robert Gower & Co.; Graham & Co., Rotterdam; Grahams & Co., Gibraltar; B. Granara; Francesco Greil; J.L. Grisar & Co.; A. Grisillon, Rollet & Co.; Baron Jean Baptiste Louis Gros (French diplomat, China); H.C.A. Gross; H. Grote (of August Kaiser & Co., Bremen); John Groves; A. Grünberg; William H. Gubbins (of Jardine, Matheson & Co.); P. Guerin (Compagnie Nationale de Navigation); J. Guinard; J.E. Gunzburg; S.K. Gwyer; A. Gysin; Gysin & Schoeninger.

Eugene Hains; Hanton & Co.; L.F.H. Hartogh; A.J. Hartzheim & Co., Liège; Gabriel Hava; Joseph Hava; Hecht Lilienthal & Co.; Robert Heitz; Heitz & Devèze; R. Hammersley Heenan (of Manchester); George J. Helland; Helland & Co.; Robert Henderson; Henderson Brothers; Carl Henschke; C.F. Herboth; William Herrmann & Kahn; Adolph Jacob Hertz & Sons; A. Hesse & Co.; Philip W. Heyman; William Higgins; John Higson (father of John Frederick Higson); J.G. Hilker; Hirsch fils aîné; H. & G. Hirsch; Holford, Lucas, Gonne & Co.; F.H. Holton; John George Homère; P. Homère; 'Hong Kong Daily Advertiser'; 'Hong Kong Times'; J.D. Hooglandt; Howland & Aspinwall; M.R. & G.H. Hühn; Robert Augustus Carew Hunt (Lieutenant, 5th Bombay Native Infantry); Thomas Hunt & Co.; John Hurlimann.

J.N. Jacobsen & Co.; F. Jacquier; H. Jaeger; A. Jameson; Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, 1st Baronet; Andrew Jardine; David Jardine (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); David Jardine (founder of Jardine, Skinner & Co.); Joseph Jardine; Sir Robert Jardine, 1st Baronet; Adolph Jencquel; J.A. Jenssen; L. Jeuffrain; Carlos Jimenez; George Joachim; Jones & Co., Liverpool; Jones & Younghusband; José B. Jimenez; Joern & Liebeskind; José Vizente Jorge; Captain Joss (of the 'Waldensian'), [ ] Jubelin.

Kaiser, August & Co.; Otto Kempf; W. Kessler; [ ] Keswick; William Keswick; A.W.H. Kier & Co.; H. Kiesewetter; Thomas William Kinder (Mint Master, Hong Kong); W. Kinen; John Warden Kinghorn (marine surveyor); Kjöbenhaunske Skibsrederi; Michel Alexandre Kleczkowski; C. Klug; W.O. Knoop; G. Koch; R. Kohler; Koninklÿke Nederlandsche Stoomboot Maatschappÿ (Royal Netherlands Steamship Co.); Theodor Körner; C.E. Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs; [ ] Kump (Asiatische Kuestenfahrt Gesellschaft); Kunkler, Hirzel & Co.

Labarta Rey Hermanos; A. Lacroix; C. Lacroix; Lafon Frères & Cie; S. Lagrange; F.G. Lange; G. Lasalvi et fils; G. Verdier Latour; Lucien Laulhé; Lucien Laulhé et neveu; Legrand, Tanco & Co.; John W. Leonard; Joseph Lèques; Thomas Letchford; P. Lilienthal; V. Lilienthal; Rudolph Lindau; E. Lindes; W. Lindquist; Linhing; Lloyd Italiano (Italian Lloyds); Thomas Longridge; London, Bombay & Mediterranean Bank Ltd; London & Mediterranean Bank Ltd; Longquéty & Co.; Lopes Dubec & Co.; A. Luc; Lucas, Gonne, Gribble & Co.; Baron Friedrich August Lühdorf; Lyall, Matheson & Co.

Maatschappy van Dordrechtsche Scheepsredery; William Macdonald & Co.; Alexander C. Macgregor; Mackay, Boomkamp & Co.; Malcolm Anderson Macleod (junior partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); H. McCaskill; Captain Robert McMurdo; John Macvicar; Nicolo Maffei; Charles Magniac (brother of Hollingworth and Daniel); Magniac, Jardine & Co.; E. Mahorcich; A. Maître; José Gabriel Mardel; E.J. Margan; Antonio Margati; F. Margot; Pierre Joseph Henri Marmottan; A. Marschhausen; Delacroix Marsy (Captain of the 'Josephine Amédie'); [ ] Matheson; Alexander Matheson; Donald Matheson; (Nicholas) James Sutherland Matheson (also 'Santiago Thomasen', pseudonym); Matheson & Co.; Matheson & Scott; José Matia; Matia Menchacatorre & Co.; Walter Henry Medhurst; C. Melchers & Co.; Messageries Impériales, Administration des Services Maritimes des; C. Messing; Julius H. Meyer; Emil Friedrich Meyer & Co.; Meyer Schinz & Co.; Edward Milsom; Milsom & F. Poy; Milsom, Poy & Ch. Berry; A. Molinié; Remi de Montigny; Ennemond Morel; Morel & Co.; P. Moreno; Félix Moreno Quégles; Miguel Moreno Quégles; Charles Murphy; P.B. Murphy; Henry Myers (of Paris).

National-Dampfschiffs-Compagnie; Alberto Nattini; W.H. Nebel; V. Nicod et fils; Miss Lina Reichmann Noack; Noilly Prat & Co.; J. Nonchard & Co.; A. Norman.

James P. O'Connor; K. Oehler; William Oswald & Co.; Mrs [ ] Otadui; Eugenio de Otadui; C.H. Oulsen.

Pagy & Barry; G.B. Parodi; Pascal fils & Cie; L. Pascalis; Jules Pastré; Pastré frères; S. Paté; William Paterson (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); Francisco Patxot; Adrien Paule; F. Paulig; A. Pélissier; F. Pellynssen (also [ ] Rulijnssen); Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.; Charles George Guy Perceval (of the British Consular Service); F. Perquer et ses fils; B. & E. Perrier; G. Perrochet; [ ] Perrod; Luigi Pessi; E. di D. Petrocochino; Joseph Phelps; L. Piand (of Arlès-Dufour & Co.); L. Piaud (Inspector General, Bureau Veritas); René Picard; Giovanni Battista Pich; N.G. Pierson; G. Pillier; A. Pinard; Emile Pohl; Léon Porteu; L. Possoz; Thomas Preston (of the 'Hong Kong Times'); H. Puggaard & Co.

Thomas Ralli & Co.; Anna M. Rabgel Baptista; E.P. Raphael; Raphael Berend & Co.; Recard & Friewald; Red Sea & India Telegraph Co. Ltd; Reggio & Corsi; Lorenzo L. de Rego; J. Reinherz; Wilhelm Reling; A. Rembry; Edouard Renard & Co.; Vittorio Repitsch; E. Reuch; Revol & Dassier; A. Riard; G.T. Rice & Co.; Richards, FMackintosh & Co.; [ ] Richter; R.C. Rickmers; J.R. Riedtmann; C. Rién; J. Rigaud & Co.; Henry Ritter; John Robertson (Captain of the 'Stornaway' and 'Cairngorm'); L.T. Robinson; T.H. Robinson; Robinson Clark & Co.; Mariano de la Roca; G.T. Roediger; E. Roget & Co.; Matthias Rohde & Co.; A. Rolland; Gebrüder Römer; Natalis Rondot; Rosenburger & Co.; L.M. Rosenthal; G. Rossetti & Co.; Gino Rossi; J. Ruff.

Nicolas de St. Croix; Sabadell Hermanos; Arthur Sabathier & Co.; F. Saccone; J. Saccone; F.C. Sauermann (of Behre & Co. and Jardine, Matheson & Co.); F.W. Sauermann (of Hamburg); [ ] Schaar (of Dampfschiffs Gesellschaft, and Swatow); J. Schabert; G. Schauwecker; A. Schenk; Scherr, Wilson & Co.; P.E. Schilizzi; Schlesinger & Schapira; O. Schlick; Frau S.E. Schmitt; Schmitz & Stoltenhoff; L. Schmolle; E. Schoeninger; Schull Jenne; Otto Schulz; F. Schumacher & Co.; J.D. Schütt; P.B. Schwabe & Co.; W. Schwabe; W. Schwiecker; Edward Scott (Captain of the 'Sir Charles Napier'); Scott, Penfold & Co.; Sechiari, Argenti & Schilizzi; J. Sescau & Co.; Seurin frères; William Shaw; William Sherwill; Kayser Siegfriede; F. Simar; J. Simon, Wwe. & Söhne; G. Sinadino; G. Sinadino & Co.; Georg Singer; E.H. Slaghek (of Shanghai); Smidt & le Maire; Herbert Smith (partner, Jardine, Matheson & Co.); W.H. Smith (P. & O., Gibraltar); W. Henry Smith (of Gibraltar); W.J. Smith; Bernardino de Sobrino; Sobrino & Co.; Sobrino Hermanos; S. de Sobrino; V. de Sobrino; Vicente de Sobrino; Société Française des Charbonnages du Tonkin; F. Sourdis & Co.; Alesandro Spada; O. Spenzler; Z. Stefanovich & Co.; Louis Steiner; Richard Stetter; James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie (James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie); Stone & Co., London and Marseilles.

Tanco & Co.; Jean Tandonnet et frères; L.A. Tangevald; Henry Jefferd Tarrant (barrister); Henry Tegner; Henry H. Temple; Temple, Blackburn & Co.; F.J. Tesdorpf & Son; Thomas Thatcher; Edouard A. Thebaud (of E.A. Thebaud & Co., Havre); F. Thibaudet; H. Tiering; C.G. Times; Edward Tonna; B. Topuz & fils; J.R.H. Treeve; Casimir Troplong; Sylvie Trotebas; Alexander Turing; Turing & Co.; Alexander Turing & Co.; Turing & Tavenraat; Edward Turner; Maria Turner; Thomas Godfrey Turner.

Anna Margarida Ullman; Roza Maria Ullman; Union des Marchands de Soie de Lyon; George F.V. Urquhart (P. & O.).

G. Van den Broek; Jules Van der Laat & Co.; F. Varenne; J. Vasset; Joanna Ullman Veiga; Joaquim Jozé Ferreira Veiga; Luigi Veroli; P. Veryeylen; Joseph Vettori; Laure Vettori; Vincent Vettori; [ ] Viel (Bureau Veritas); Léonce Vinas; José Maria Viniegra; Fratelli Viscardi; Jacobus de Voogt; J.S. Vriesendorp.

J.J.B. Walbach; A.H. Wappäns (of Hamburg); Robert Warschauer & Co.; Thomas Weeding; Lawrence Wells; Werner & Brandes; J.A. Werry (of Smyrna); J.J.A. Werry (of Smyrna); C. Whittall & Co.; Whittall, Lenox & Co.; H. Widow; Wills, Manché & Co.; Carl Wollenschlaeger & Co.; H.W. Wood (Borneo Co. Ltd); Hyppolyte Worms & Co.

M. Yarak; Juan Bautista Yñigo; Ezpeleta Yñigo & Co.; John R. Young (Henderson Bros, Leghorn); Yrisarri & Co.; Gabriel de Yruretagoyena (G. Goyena).

Zerlendi & Sepsis; André Zipcy; Christophe Zipcy; Christophe & Isaac Zipcy; Isaac Zipcy; M. Zipcy; Zipcy & Co.; and P. Zipcy & Co.

Dates

  • Creation: 1820-1891

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The original letters are not available to readers, but microfilm copies may be ordered in the Manuscripts Reading Room - Reels 118 (letters nos 1-332) 119 (333-800), 161 (801-970), 162 (970-1136), 163 (1137-1553), 164 (1554-1640), 165 (1641-1954), 166 (1954-2138), 167 (2139-2542), 168 (2543-2737), 169 (2738-3097), 170 (3098-3251), 171 (3252-3547), 172 (3547-3662), 173 (3662*-3813), 174 (3814-4027*), 175 (4027**-4243), 176 (4244-4454), 177 (4454*-4581), 178 (4582-4663), 179 (4664-4761), 180 (4762-4581), 181 (4582-4950), 182 (4951-5049), 183 (5050-5140), 184 (5141-5224), 185 (5224-5331), 186 (5332-5458), 187 (5459-5577), 188 (5578-5679), 189 (5680-5786), 190 (5787-5883) and 191 (5884-6020 and S1-148).

Extent

6168 item(s) (6168 letters)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

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