Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER VC 1887 A
OBJECT NAME letter
DATE November 22, 1803
AUTHOR Daniel [Crommelin?]
RECIPIENT Frederick De Peyster
MEDIUM paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES Amsterdam, New York
KEYWORDS smoking tobacco for “aged parent”,
Mr Fred’k de Peyster
Newyork
Amsterdam 22 Novemb’r . 1803
[Aux] [Sir]
We refer to our last of 12 Inst. _ Yesterday your / esteemed favour of 20 Septemb’r came to hand, by which you desire / us to send you for your aged Parent, some pounds of our best / smoking Tobacco [+] about a half a Grofs of Pipes. _ On receipts / of yoru Letter we have most cheerfully occupied ourselves in / the execution of your Order, so as to be sent you by the bearer / hereof, say the Brig Superior, G. W. Allen, Master, then on / departure from Town, Cap’n Allen’s receipt for the same, you’ve / inclosed [?] at foot a note of the cost being ./ 58/12/ [??] we have / pafsed to your Debit, we shall be happy to hear in time of its / having come safe to hand + that the Tobacco has proved to the / liking of the old Gentleman who we hope will yet for a / length of time use it with satisfaction, tho unknown to him / we beg you’ll present him our best respects. _ We were under / the necefsity to send the Tobacco in a Box, which is rather / costly, but otherwise it would have spoil’d on the pafsage _ / Here these Kind of Boxes are universally used to keep any /
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Quantity. __ Part of your consignment by the Rising Stage / is landed _ The Comm[erces?] is still under Quarantine _ The / sales for Sugars + Coffee are at the present moment very dull, / we hope a change for the better will soon take place.
We remain with due regard.
Sir
Your Obed’ Serv’ts
== Daniel [Crommelin] [Sin?]
Note of a Box smoaking Tobacco + a basket Pipes, / Shipped by Dam’l Crommelin & Sons, on board the Brig / Superior, Cap’n George W. Allen, bound to New York, on / acco’t of Mr. Fred’k de Peyster, Merch’t at said place
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Box containing 25 [?] Smoking Tobacco . 40’ / 50__
A basket containing 6 doz’n: long pipes…… 1.2__
Box, Basket, [??] small charges…….. 51.2 __
7.10__
58.12
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[ADDRESS]
Mr Fred’k de Peyster
New York
[illegible]
[LABEL]
Dan. Crommelin & Sona
Amsterdam 22 Nov. 1803.
Rec’d 13 Feb’y.. 1804
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Frederick De Peyster
Acc[??] Letter
1804
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Tobacco –Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
