Miscellaneous business correspondence, mostly relating to the cloth trade, addressed to Pietro Ascagno Tealdi, merchant of Manchester.
Numbers 1-255 comprise letters from abroad, January 1836-August 1838, the majority from Italy (mainly Ancona, Genoa, Leghorn and Turin), with a few from Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris. The correspondence is written in Italian, with the exception of:
- numbers 100, 209 and 212 (in English);
- numbers 5, 12, 23-24, 28, 34, 41-42, 54, 78, 82, 99, 120, 135-136, 143, 164, 175, 189, 197, 200, 203, 236 and 243 (in French).
Numbers 256-276 comprise letters from James Clayton and Joseph Clayton, textile merchants of Bradford, January 1836 - June 1837, with two exceptions: no. 258, from John Clifford of London, 20 February 1836, and no. 267, a circular of Act. 22, 1836.
Also referred to as Italian MS 64.