LA RÉUNION. SAINT-DENIS DE LA RÉUNION, 30 letters in-4°, fro - Lot 169

LA RÉUNION. SAINT-DENIS DE LA RÉUNION, 30 letters in-4°, from 1767 to 1824 from the FORVÊTU LECOMTE family. Family and business letters (Coffee trade), signed "Marie AUBRY, Widow FORVÊTU LECOMTE": "St Denis, l'Isle de la Réunion, 1803... My health is always delicate, I am often inconvenienced, and moreover, I have the sorrow of still seeing War, which deprives me of the means of sending you the Coffee that I have here for you; Seeing Peace, I had hope of sending it to you surely. But alas, this Peace was only a moment for us and the people who decided to pass to France during this small interval, most of them were taken; Mr Julienne, your attorney, has just sent to his mother who lives in Caen, fifty bales of coffee, he has just learned that the ship on which they were, has just been taken... Veuve Forvêtu le Comte" (Excerpt from a letter) "I am writing to you from one of my nephews, named pierre Charles AUBRY, living in this Colony, he is staying with me... my address Veuve FORVÊTU LECOMTE, Canton du Nord, quartier St Denis, ile de la Réunion...". "It is on the Frégate LA THÉMIS that my letters have been put... France has made an arrangement that coffee from the islands will only be deposited in the port of Toulon and Lorient, so see a few safe trading houses, as I would not like your coffee to be exchanged, it is not the same all over the island, the rainy Cantons provide a very different coffee than the dry Cantons which is more beautiful..." (excerpts)