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

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Details of HCA 30/235
Reference: HCA 30/235
Description:

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

Documents: Business archive of the firm Nicolas Gottlieb Lütkens, continued from HCA 30/232, HCA 30/233 and HCA 32/234.

Letters from major merchant correspondents, continued [as kept by Luetkens].

28. 1-63 La Coste, from Bilbao, 1 December 1742 - 15 May 1745.

29. 1-124 Jean-Pierre Lichigaray, most from Bayonne, 31 October 1742 - 26 June 1745.

30. 1-78 Anthony Luetkens, from London, 23 September 1743 - 11 July 1745; Anton Luetkens, from Hamburg, 3 May 1744 - 14 May 1745; Joachim Luetkens, from London and Oxford, 16 September 1743 - 11 June 1745, and an undated bill for furnishings bought by him for Nicolas's new house in Hamburg.

31. 1-129 Luttmann & van Bobartt, most from Nantes, 12 November 1743 - 6 December 1744. .

32. 1-77 Luttmann & van Bobartt, most from Nantes, 3 January 1745 - 10 August 1745.

33. 1-49 Ochs & Schweighausen, from Nantes, Brest, Morlaix, Lorient, St Malo, 19 February 1742 - 5 August 1745, and 3 undated.

34. 1-27 Pierre Louis Pitot, from Morlaix, 28 January 1745 - 10 August 1745, with a court note 'containing a correspondence regarding the purchase of English sugars, tobaccos and other prize goods'.

Date: 1742-1745
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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