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

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, HCA 30/234 and HCA 30/235.

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

Merchants of medium importance (3 or more letters):-

35. 1-7 Castillon, from Montpellier, 15 September 1743 - 31 August 1744.

36. 1-5 Joseph Clements, from Vannes, 16 June 1744 - 13 February 1745, and a letter to him (not from Lutkens).

37. 1-3 Jean Detcheverry, from San Sebastian, 17 March 1744 - 24 March 1744.

38. 1-25 D'Egmont, from L'Orient, 27 June 1744 - 15 May 1745, and 2 pages of Luetkens' notes.

39. 1-3 Daniel Deutz & Son, from Amsterdam, 15 June 1742 - 25 June 1742, and undated.

40. 1-3 Paul D'Herculle, from Marseilles, 21 October 1742 - 15 April 1743.

41. 1-8A Jacob Dircksen, from Danzig, 4 January 1743 - 11 April 1744.

42. 1-20 J Dubuat, from St Malo, 27 July 1744 - 26 July 1745, containing Lutkens' merchant marks for sugar.

43. 1-8 Dupeyrat, from Port Louis, 27 July 1744 - 19 June 1745.

44. 1-8 Guldiman, from Paris, 20 June 1744 - 14 October 1744.

45. 1-4 Joachim Heusch, from Hamburg, 27 March 1744 - 24 August 1744.

46. 1-4 Lagarde, from Beziers, July 1743 - 8 October 1743.

47. 1-3 Father Guillaume Maingart, from the Abbey of St Mathieu, 20 April 1745 - 22 July 1745, and a letter to him from Luetkens.

48. 1-5 Jacques Mes, from Beziers, 1 October 1742 - 4 June 1743.

49. 1-3 J G Naschold, from Paris, 15 April 1743 - 6 March 1745.

50. 1-31 Jacques Perron, from Port Louis, 9 January 1744 - 13 July 1745.

51. 1-6 Pictet, from Paris, 6 March 1745 - 21 July 1745.

52. 1-3 Robert Rilliet, from L'Orient, 2 January 1745 - 20 February 1745.

53. 1-7 Heinrich Schütz or Schuetz, from Brest, 19 May 1745 - 2 June 1745.

54. 1-13 Johann Seewaldt, from 'Thurnburg', and W B Seewaldt, from Nantes, 19 June 1742 - 14 July 1745.

55. 1-7 Christoffer Seydeler, from Hamburg, 21 August 1744 - 9 July 1745.

56. 1-3 Peter Heinrich Stampeel, from Montpellier and Hamburg, 11 December 1742 - 10 April 1744.

57. 1-8 Struykmann, from L'Orient and Nantes, 6 January 1745 - 3 April 1745.

58. 1-7 Tourton Baur & Co, from Paris, 7 April 1744 - 3 February 1745.

59. 1-3 Vernede Rietman & Co, from Amsterdam, 20 August 1742 - 6 September 1742.

60. 1-5 Paul Vincelius, from Paris, 14 November 1744 - 12 June 1745.

61. 1-4 J C Voigt, from Bayonne, San Sebastian, Bilbao, 10 May 1744 - 20 June 1744.

62. 1-4A Caspar Heinrich Wellmann, from Hamburg, 5 November 1743 - 15 March 1745.

63. 1-9 Wetten & Co, from Marseilles, 21 January 1743 - 25 March 1744.

64. 1-3 E H Wuertzer, from Rouen, 3 September 1743 - 17 October 1743.

65. Merchants with only 1 or 2 letters.

65/1-2. Pierre Audibert, from L'Orient.

65/3. Cornelis Beijerman & Co, from Hamburg.

65/4. Belequic, from Audierne.

65/5. Bernard, from Brest.

65/6. Johan Bietfeld, from Bordeaux.

65/7. P Birr, from Nantes.

65/8. Bonfils, from Vannes.

65/9. Bourquel, from Agde.

65/10 Clermont, from Amsterdam.

65/11. De Boule, from Dunkirk.

65/12. Louis De Lisle, from Marseilles.

65/13.Melchior Didier, from Dunkirk.

65/14. Martin Dolhabide, from Vittoria.

65/15-16. Ehrenfried Engelhardt, from Hamburg.

65/17. F Fatin, from L'Orient.

65/18. Fiton, from Bordeaux.

65/19. James French, from San Sebastian (in English).

65/20-21. Heinrich Gloye, from Nantes.

65/22. Heinrich Greve, from Hamburg.

65/23. S Hardy, from La Rochelle.

65/24. Hellement, from Vannes.

65/25. Hillner & Riederer, from Paris.

65/26-27. Pierre Hiz, from Hamburg.

65/28-29. Nicolas Jante, from Nantes.

65/30. Le Valles, from Hennebont.

65/31. Leyritz, from St Malo.

65/32-33. Lombard, from Frontignan.

65/34. Macion, from [Brest].

65/35. Isaac Dirck Momber, from Danzig.

65/36. J Perne, from San Sebastian.

65/37. François Pro, from Bayonne.

65/38. Remanzell, from L'Orient.

65/39. Jean Nicolas Ribard, from Rouen.

65/40-41. D Richter, from St Malo.

65/42. Jean and Henri Roorenberg, from Amsterdam.

65/43-44. Daniel Schiebeler from Hamburg.

65/45-46. J J Schulte, from Bremen.

65/47. Frederick Christian Sohl, from Bordeaux.

65/48. David Speelmeyer, from Hamburg.

65/49. J A Tepler, from Paris.

65/50. M Vlieghe, from Nantes.

65/51-52. Voght & Walther Voigt, from Lisbon.

65/53. Volker & Christoffers, from Amsterdam.

65/54-56. Emanuel Weiss & Co, from La Rochelle (56 is a prices current).

65/57-58. Well & Lutgens, from London.

65/59. Wiesendanger, from Bordeaux.

65/60. Cornelis Wod, from Nantes.

65/61. Zubli, from Nantes.

66. Unidentified miscellanea.

• 1-5. Detached envelopes.
• 6 and 6A: Account of Hertzer, 1744, folded by the court to form a wrapper, with a court note 'Letters ... 1741...44 Perused' attached by wax seals

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)