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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC02711.28
From Archive Folder	Items relating to William E. Jones
Title	List of items shipped from Liverpool, including grape vines and fruit trees
Date	10 January 1859
Author	Vilmorin Andrieux & Companie (fl. 1859)
Recipient	Landell, J.H.
Document Type	Correspondence; Business and financial document
Content Description	Lists items shipped from Liverpool, including grape vines and fruit trees. Requests that the items be shipped to William E. Jones in Glad Springs, Virginia, as soon as possible.
Subjects	Confederate General or Leader Merchants and Trade Commerce Global History and Civics Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Finance
People	Vilmorin Andrieux Company (fl. 1775-1975) Jones, William E. (1824-1864)
Place written	Paris, France
Theme	Merchants & Commerce
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information	In 1743, Madame Claude Geoffrey, known as the "maitresse grainetiere" in Paris, opened a boutique for plants and seeds with her husband Pierre d'Andrieux, then the chief seed supplier and botanist for King Louis XV. Geoffrey and Andrieux's daughter later married Philippe Victoire de Vilmorin, who joined the business in 1775. The boutique added Vilmorin's name, becoming Vilmorin-Andrieux and operated for more than two hundred years, collaborating with horticulturalists, farmers, and a natural history specialist to create the first seed catalog. The Vilmorin name gained international status in the nineteenth century when Louis de Vilmorin, a biologist, chemist, and grandson of Philippe de Vilmorin, established groundbreaking research for the modern seed-breeding industry.
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide Paris January 10th 1859 Sir We be to inform you that we forwarded on 6th inst. to Harve for shipment to your care per first steamer for New York insured W.E.J. No. 1 case grape vines & fruit trees as per enclosed invoice amounting to frs [] Please procure you this parcel without delay and dispatch it with the enclosed invoice to Mr. W.E. Jones, Glade Spring Depot, Virginia and charge forward your expenses. Sir Yours very respectfully P. Paris January 20th 1859 Enclosed please find bill of lading for W.E.J. No. 1 shipped per steamer Asra sailing 22nd from Liverpool for New York Please forward the parcel with enclosed letter without delay to Mr. W. E. Jones.

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