April 12, 2024
WHALING - 1847 NEW BEDFORD MASS LETTER - EDMUND RODMAN - ABOUT WHALE OIL
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2 pg. letter, approx. 7-5/8" x 9-3/4", dated at New Bedford, Mass., May 19, 1847", from Edmund Rodman, to Lucius W. Carroll, at Norwich Ct. Folded letter has red "NEW BEDFORD/Ms." cds postmark and red "5" rate handstamp. The writer of this letter, EDMUND RODMAN, (1824-1902), was a member of the prominent New Bedford Quaker family, Abolitionists, and involved in the Whale Oil business. Edmund Rodman was a wealthy sperm whale oil dealer, and was also a noted amateur artist, who went on sketching trips with accomplished New Bedford painters such as Charles Henry Gifford and Lemuel Eldred. Good whaling related content, in which Rodman writes concerning some whale oil which he had sold to Lucius Carroll, and the way Carroll handled a customer's complaint about a barrel of the whale oil - Rodman writes that Carroll should have just taken the barrel of oil back from the customer, and returned it to him, rather than giving him a large discount off the price, and gives his reason why this should have been done, among which are that he doesn't like to see someone imposed on, and he thinks that the customer imposed on Carroll. Includes: "Your letter of the 12th Inst. came duly to hand. I note your explanation with regard to the deduction made on the barrel of Whale oil, and believe that you acted for the best, but I cannot conceive, as
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