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Auction: 326 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1270

Collection of Manuscript Letters, 1835 to 1837, written to Abraham Bell & Company, New York City, Cotton Brokers. Mostly by the Boston, Massachusetts merchants, N. J. Cunningham & Company, but also several English merchant firms. Topics covered include the purchase of New Orleans cotton, shipment of a large cotton cargo from Mobile, Alabama to Liverpool, England, insurance on, and the repair of the ship Esmeralda, payment and transfer of funds, and financial problems caused by Jacksonian interference (or lack of interference), in American banking. English correspondent's letters provide evidence regarding their preference for Alabama over Virginia cotton, levels of English demand during this period, and buyers' confidence in American firms. In all, 31 letters, quarto, totalling 42 pages, plus integral address leaves or panels. Together with three related letters and a printed 1849 Liverpool prices current. In very good condition, clean and legible. From the Collection of John Herzog.

Estimate
$300 to $500