[WINE] Commercial letter to Curcier & Adet, Bordeaux wine merchants, concerning an Australian shipment. May, 1871.

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Manuscript letter, 1 1/2 pages, quarto, on the letterhead of shipping brokers Constantin, Boisson Co., Rochefort, addressed to Messieurs Curcier Adet, Bordeaux , dated 21 May 1871; the letter concerns correspondence that has been received from Curcier Adet s Melbourne office re. a claim for payment that has been made by Constantin, Boisson Co. for cargo carried to Australia on the Notre Dame de la Providence ; Constantin, Boisson Co. explain that on 3 April 1870 they had paid 22,000 francs to hire the ship to transport goods (this ship had arrived at Melbourne from France in September 1870 and at Sydney in October, with a cargo of wine spirits the Australian shipping agents were Curcier, Hawke Co.); original fold, very clean and legible. From Le Courrier Australien (1 Nov 1976): History of . . . CURCIER ADET CO. PTY. LIMITED. This Company commenced business in Australia about the lime of the gold-rushes of the 1850 s and there was a connection between those events. It s an interesting little story, woven round the history of Australia itself In the early fifties of last century GUSTAVE CURCIER, and EDOUARD ADET of Bordeaux, France, decided to join the thousands of immigrants then pouring into Victoria following the discovery of gold. As there was no regular shipping from France, they chartered a ship, loaded it with Bordeaux products (mainly Brandy) and set sail for Melbourne in 1851. For these two young men, both still in their twenties it was intended as a simple trading ve

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