Catalogue description Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens or...

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Details of HCA 30/234
Reference: HCA 30/234
Description:

Captured ship: Die Hoffnung (master Rieweert Frerecks, owner Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens or Luetkens).

Documents: Business archive of the firm of Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens, continued from HCA 30/232 and HCA 30/233.

Letters from major merchant correspondents [in order as kept by Luetkens].

19. 1-43: Johann Jakob Bethmann, Bethmann & Imbert, from Bordeaux, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Danzig, 19 August 1743 - 9 August 1745.

20. 1-9: Simon Mauritz Bethmann, letters from Rotterdam, 21 October 1743 - 11 May 1745.

21. 1-107: Bethmann & Imbert, from Bordeaux, 3 February 1743 - 11 July 1745.

22. 1-28: Jean Cottin, from Paris, 3 April 1743 - 24 June 1745.

23. 1-65: [Simon and Jean] Daragorry, from San Sebastian, 22 January 1743 - 28 May 1745, 2 undated.

24. 1-125: Cornelis De Meijer, from Amsterdam, 2 May 1743 - 19 July 1745, 3 undated. [Includes 25 letters from Cornelis De Meijer transferred here from HCA 30/374, 2016.]

25. 1-123: Hertzer & Van Bobartt, from Hamburg, 29 October 1743 - 30 July 1745.

26. 1-25: François Jourdain, from Brest, 12 April 1736 - 24 May 1745.

27. 1-37: Joachim Kahler, from Hamburg, 12 April 1741 - 2 August 1745.

Date: 1736-1745
Related material:

See HCA 30/232 and 233 for more Lütkens business papers, HCA 30/660 for a volume of Rieweert Frerecks' journals, and HCA 32/115/4 for more letters and the main collection of ship's papers and court process etc
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: Dutch, French and German
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description
Publication note:

Lucas Haasis, The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century (2022); Haasis, 'Papier, das nötigt und Zeit, die drängt übereilt. Zur Materialität und Zeitlichkeit von Briefpraxis im 18. Jahrhundert und ihrer Handhabe', pp. 310-324 in Brendecke, Arndt (ed.): Praktiken der Frühen Neuzeit, (2015); Haasis, Noch bleibt mir ein Augenblick Zeit um mich mit Euch zu unterhalten, pp. 87-114 in Freist, Dagmar (ed.) Diskurse-Körper-Artefakte (2015)

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