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Lot 119

SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING – NEWFOUNDLAND, LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL
Two manuscript volumes from Liverpool merchants Carson, Dennison & Parry, a firm primarily engaged in the Newfoundland trade, a letterbook and an accounts book, covering the period 1807-1815, with papers from the Bristol shipbuilding firm of Hilhouse.

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SHIPPING AND SHIPBUILDING – NEWFOUNDLAND, LIVERPOOL AND BRISTOL

Two manuscript volumes from Liverpool merchants Carson, Dennison & Parry, a firm primarily engaged in the Newfoundland trade, covering the period 1807-1815, comprising a letterbook containing copies of some 700 letters, mainly from John Dennison, concerning every aspect of their trade, with details of ships and shipping, convoys to Newfoundland and the Mediterranean, insurance matters, finance, customs issues, damage to vessels etc., referencing "woeful times" in Liverpool and mentioning the commercial failures of a number of houses, 370 pages, folio, contemporary reversed calf, marbled boards; and an accounts book relating to the commercial activities of John Dennison, 260 pages, two pages removed, folio, contemporary reversed calf, marbled boards, Liverpool, 1807-1813; with sixteen folio manuscript pages from the famous Bristol shipbuilding firm of Hilhouse, which built over 560 ships in their 200 years of business, comprising weekly work-sheets and estate accounts, early nineteenth-century

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The main business of Carson, Dennison & Parry concerned the import of cod and cod oil from St. John's, Newfoundland with its sale either in the English, Scottish and Irish markets or further afield in Sicily, Malta and Gibraltar. Ancillary trade was also conducted in the import of rum and sugar from the West Indies as well as exporting other cargo back to Newfoundland. The wider situation is touched upon with brief references to the political state of affairs in Portugal and Spain. The business of convoys is much discussed with many requests to the Admiralty that single vessels might be allowed to make passage on their own to Newfoundland.

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