‎HOLTERHOFF Bernard Friedrich - [ ] Georges & Christian KREGLINGER :‎
‎Bernhard Friedrich Holterhoff, bey G[eorges] & C[hristian] Kreglinger in Antwerpen - An 1813. (manuscript on paper).‎

‎" Antwerpen, 1813, manuscript on paper, 18 x 16 cm. Bound in contemporary marbled boards. The manuscript was written from both sides ( recto-verso). [1] First side: Contains 53 pp. of very complicated commercial calculations (currency rates). Amsterdam florins, Hamburg Marck, Genova Piastres, London Livres Sterling etc. are conversed in other currencies: e.g. from Cadix to London, from Lisbon to Livorno... [2] Second side. Contains a mixture of calculations and commercial information, some in tabular form. It opens with the madder (meekrap-garance) crop produce in Zeeland for the years 1834 - 1838. Pages 4 --20 contain a copy of a letter written from New York (?) before 1837 . He explains the difficulties he encounters in financing tobacco and cotton trade from Galveston and Savannah. He will try to procure the fiancial aid from Baring Bank. Shipping could be via Boston. On pp. 6v. a date (29 aug. 1837) he conforms his arrival in New York, in this letter ( or report) he mentions his being in Baltimore, Richmond etc.. On p.11 and following he deals with Havana (sugar, coffee). P. 17r. continuation of a letter from Charleston (april 1837); p.17v copy of letter from Mobile (29 jan. 1838), p. 18r. New Orleans 21 april 1838. P. 19r,v Table with rates in rhe port of Glasgow. Lvs 21-27 is a treatise on ''averages'' (in English). P. 28v & 29,30 a long letter in English, from New York (11 nov. 1837)....Interesting manuscript which contains commercial information on trade with America in the first half of the 19th c. The author used this book at first to take notes of his training at he Antwerp trading house Kreglinger starting in 1813. Twenty years later , he took it with him on his visit to America to copy the letters and reports he sent to his Antwerp patrons."‎

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