Thomas Perkins, Jr. Letter Book, 1846-1850.

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Thomas Perkins, Jr. Letter Book, 1846-1850.

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This volume contains letters from Thomas Perkins, Jr., a commission agent for a Boston firm to the firm, shipowners, merchants, bankers, and family members. Perkins, who was based mainly in Penang (with briefer periods in Calcutta, Singapore, and Batavia), details trading conditions and prices for commodities such as metals, coffee, pepper, hides, cloth, pitch, linseed and tortoisehell.

One letter book.

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