Continuation of letter to Saul, 30th Jan'y 1857 — closing and orders list, signed T. Gourdin
Book 1, Page 84 ·1857
Transcription
The concluding portion of a handwritten letter in brown ink, signed and dated. The closing paragraph fills the top of the sheet; below the signature is a tabulated list of orders with dollar amounts. The lower two-thirds of the sheet are blank apart from show-through of writing on the verso.
says he will take down some cotton for me this trip which will land at or near you, at Dukes’s. For your House it will be marked CC. — I will get him off as soon as possible.
yours sincerely
T. Gourdin
30th Jan’y 1857
Orders
On or [acct?] Gaillard & Snowden Jr. — $240
Ingraham & Webb. — 50
W. C. Dukes. — 323.90
D[itt]o. Felder [Seller?] — 500
$1123.90
AI Notes
Concluding portion of the handwritten letter begun on page 083 (the ‘Dear Saul’ business letter). Brown ink, hurried sloping cursive. The closing paragraph runs at the top of the sheet, followed by signature ‘T. Gourdin’ (likely a member of the Charleston merchant Gourdin family) and dateline 30th Jan’y 1857. Below the signature a tabulated list of four orders with dollar amounts totals $1123.90, drawn on Gaillard & Snowden Jr., Ingraham & Webb, W. C. Dukes, and (ditto) Felder Seller. Lower two-thirds of the sheet is blank apart from show-through and pronounced horizontal/vertical fold creases. The ‘CC’ cotton mark identifies the consignee’s house at Dukes’s landing.
Letter began on the previous scan (page 083, “Dear Saul,”). The signature “T. Gourdin” identifies the writer as a member of the prominent Charleston-area Gourdin merchant family; the 1857 date and references to “Charlestonian tactics” (page 083) and the Dukes’s landing cotton mark are consistent with a Lowcountry planter-merchant correspondence.