ALGERIE- Charles MANDET(Fourietist lawyer, director of the P - Lot 332

ALGERIE- Charles MANDET(Fourietist lawyer, director of the Pépinière d'Aumale in Algeria then colonist of the Nassef Khodja farm, at Kadous in Algeria)/ Set of8 autograph letters signed, totaling 27 p in-8, Poitiers (6 letters of 1863 and 1864) andNassef Khodja(2 letters of 1865), to his confidant M. Pirel, about his business in Algeria: raising funds for investment, problems with his tenant farmers, recovery of his rents, study of the drafting of a new lease of 170 ha for one of the tenant farmers; huge brush fire at Nassef Khodja with a most violent siroco, the vines are affected; a plague of grasshoppers, the farm staff managed to scare them away by making noise with stoves and watering cans, and the crops were saved; a farmer hung so many tobacco plants to dry under the roof of the sheepfold, that planks had to be bought, otherwise the roof was in danger of ruin; another incident: they had trouble putting it out, but fortunately it rained; the current crisis is not making business easy, not to mention the fires and the upsurge in insurrection, which unfortunately coincides with the rumors of abandonment in the South; he is happy with one of his farmers who has 250 ewes on the farm, and other cattle, which make him a lot of manure that he spreads on the land, which can only improve it and, more and more, increase in value/ Joint: autograph certificate signed in July 1862, concerning the accounts between his father and himself, he presents himself as director of the Pépinière d'Aumale(1 p small in-4, trace of insect pests)