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Pipon Bell & Company letter, 1860.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 22 Folder 46
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Pipon Bell & Company, addressee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trading companies--Mauritius--History--19th century--Sources.
- Trading companies.
- History.
- Mauritius.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Manuscripts, English.
- Sources.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Pablo Chandias (Santiago, Chile) (eBay), 2016.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (1 leaf)
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 22 Folder 46
- Place of Publication:
- 1860.
- Biography/History:
- An import-export business founded by Jean-Baptiste Pipon located in Port Louis, Mauritius at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The company traded under several names throughout its many years of existence, including Henry Adam and Company from 1837 to 1848 and Pipon Adam and Company from 1863 to 1897. The name Pipon Bell & Company was used from 1848 to 1863.
- Summary:
- This item is a letter dated November 9, 1860 from an unknown client located in Calcutta to Pipon Bell & Co, Port Louis, Mauritius. The letter regards the an account with the company and shipments received in Calcutta. The writer discusses the arrival and use of a horse and cancellation of future orders of sugar. Also noted are the shipments of rice arriving at Calcutta. The letter has a small red wax seal on the outside with the initials "A & C." "No. 854" is written at the top left corner of the letter next to an embossed image of a crown.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.
- OCLC:
- 959384458
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