Matvei Lapatin to Grigorii Shelikhov
Russian · 18th-c. cursive · 24 Oct 1792 · Irkutsk
As written
получено 25 ап[р]еля[?] из[?] [...] [...] ме
латица[?] Свешнико[...][?]
[1792-95][?]
1.
Милостивый Гдрь;
Григорьи[?] Ивановичь;
Имелъ честь получить отвас пи
Смо отъ числа сего мца чрезъ игнатья
петровича котелникова прикоторомъ
итоварной регистръ сценою Суммою на
7256[?] р.[?] изначущимися понакладной фанту[?]
ртъ[?] поЗн.[?] №рамъ[?] илитерою вашею въ трит
цати девяти местахъ товаръ вашъ полу
ченъ отполномочни[?] благополученъ, авооныхъ
местахъ щотъ, мне неизвестенъ ибо
безърозбивки местъ узнать трудно, аобо
всемъ Съподробностию непременно васъ
поблагополучномъ нашемъ приезде вОхот[?]
Ощоте оныхъ уведомить, ачто значущая
врегистре Сумма двести рублей оную
я отнего котелникова неполучилъ, даипри
казаноли ему оную мне отдать изписма
вашего невидно, напрытие[?] оныхъ товаровъ
двадцать кожъ сырыхъ получилъ; ипомести
лись все вообще наодномъ судне нарабкющина[?]
Translation · English
Received 25 April[?] from [...] [...] [illegible: possibly a townsman/meshchanin named] Sveshnikov[?]
[1792-95]
1.
Gracious Sir,
Grigorii Ivanovich,
I had the honour of receiving from you a letter dated the [blank] of this month, through Ignatii Petrovich Kotelnikov, with which [came] also a register of goods with prices, to the total sum of 7256[?] rubles[?], and, as stated in the bill of lading/invoice[?], [marked] by marks[?], numbers and your letter-code, in thirty-nine packages; your goods were received from the authorised person[?] safely, but what is contained in those packages is unknown to me, because without opening the packages it is difficult to find out; and about everything I will without fail inform you in detail, upon our safe arrival in Okhotsk[?], regarding the account of them. As for the sum of two hundred rubles noted in the register, I did not receive it from him, Kotelnikov, and whether he was ordered to give it to me is not evident from your letter. For covering those goods I received twenty raw hides; and they were all placed together on one vessel, on [...][?]