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Title: John Packes newsletters to Thomas Wood, 1642-1695.
Dates (inclusive): 1642-1695
Collection Number: HM 82049 - 82280
Creator:
Packes, John
Extent:
234 items in 4 boxes
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Manuscripts Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: The John Packes Newsletters to Thomas Wood are a collection of letters written by John Packes, who was the business partner
and London agent to Thomas Wood, concerning the East India Company and other business matters, dated from 1642 to 1695>.
Language: English.
Note:
Finding aid last updated on .
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[Identification of item]. John Packes newsletters to Thomas Wood, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Samuel Gedge Ltd. June 2012.
Thomas Wood (1641-1723), son of Edward Wood (c. 1604-1667), was a grocer in Littleton, now Surrey, England and a committee
member of the East India Company.
John Packes was the London agent and business partner to Edward Wood, and later Thomas Wood when he took up the family seat
and continued investing in the East India Company after his father's death in 1667. It appears that John Packes resided in
Thomas Wood's house in the Bear Key precinct of Tower Ward, off Thames Street in London. He managed and administrated Wood's
investments while also keeping him supplied with a constant stream of merchandise, provisions and food and sent it down the
Thames by a Bargeman named John Loton.
The papers consist of four boxes of newsletters written by John Packes to Edward Wood and later to Thomas Wood, with the majority
of the letters addressed to the latter. The letters and documents are arranged chronologically and concern Wood's business
dealings with the East India Company, as well as the prices of food, wine, medicine and miscellaneous utensils and provisions.
The letters include information from the middle of the seventeenth century to the end of the seventeenth century. There are
also a few documents and letters from other authors than John Pack scattered throughout the collection.
Please note: Many of the letters are un-addressed. While most of the letters are most likely written to Thomas Wood, several
of them are entitled, "To Sir" and labeled accordingly
Related materials in the Huntington Library
Arranged chronologically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Wood, Thomas, 1641-1723.
Wood, Edward, approximately 1604-1667.
Packes, John.
Loton, John.
East India Company.
Prices -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.
Commercial products -- England -- London -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.
London (England) -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
Surrey (England) -- History -- 17th century.
Letters (correspondence) -- Great Britain -- 17th century.
Wood, Thomas, 1641-1723.
Wood, Edward, approximately 1604-1667.