Merchants [ Commerce ]
… Kew, London, E 190/1427/5. Image Wencelus Hollar, ‘The Royal Exchange’, Met Museum, 29.102.128, 1647. Image Index of letters from Africa House in London to Royal African Company merchants in James Fort, Gambia, 1720-1737’, The National … the places where the ‘commercial self’ - intelligent, industrious and polite - was constructed. Image Legend Index of letters from Africa House in London to Royal African Company merchants in James Fort, Gambia, 1720-1737’, The National … the Bank of England. The companies oversaw a vast web of correspondence that connected merchants across the globe. The letter books for the Royal African Company, for instance, include domestic correspondence with merchants in London, …
Commerce | Merchants | Middling sort | North America | Politeness
Encyclopedia