Clock parts order from London

Date: [unknown]
Location: 2 Broad Street, Bloomsbury, London
Surnames/tags: Guth Kammerer

In the pile of Letters of Franz Xaver and Leopold Guth there are these two pieces of paper:

Er soll mitnehmen 100 fl baares Geld Eine Kiste wie folgt 124 Stück Uebersezte Ketten Uhren Meßketten 12 breite Endern Uhren Meßketten 18 Stück Schatten Uhrle mit Meß ketten 3 Achttaguhren auf Glocken Schlagen	6 Halbmeßer Uhren 130 Stüc neue zöllige runde Schilde 12 Stück runde 10 zöllige 4 Stück runde 11 zöllige 12 Stück nicht runde Schild allgemeinen 6 Stück 10 Zöllige ebenso 20 Pfund schnizz etwas Zeig Stollen ½euhren

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Eine Antwort erwarte ich in Eile Diese Karte soll Xaver Guth mit nehmen und wen er vom Schiff kommt so werden Sie ihn zu uns schicken	Die Adresse auf seiner Kiste oder Frachtbrief ist Xaver Good Hoxton London die Adresse an mich Louis Camerer 2 Broad St Bloomsbury London

Research notes

In case the two pieces of paper belong together, they were both written by a Louis Camerer from London, who appears to be a clock maker or clock dealer. Since the papers were in the pile of letters of Franz Xaver and Leopold Guth one might assume they were directed to Franz Xaver Guth's father Anton Guth in Simonswald.

The first piece of paper tells that somebody should take 100 fl. and a lot of clocks and clock pieces with him or her. Franz Xaver first went to London and stood there for eight days before he continued his journey to New York, he writes in his first letter home in August 1847. Was he supposed to deliver those parts as he stopped by in London?

But why would there be a Xaver Good then already with an address in London? Is the Xaver Guth that comes from the ship maybe not identical with the one in Hoxton? Are these maybe two different people? Does this maybe fit better to Franz Xaver's uncle Franz Xaver Guth?

Louis Camerer really could be identical to Alois Kammerer, who later was a brother-in-law of Franz Xaver Guth. In the US Census of 1870, for example, he is mentioned as Louis instead of Alois or Aloysius.^[1] The handwriting on this letter and on the one from Alois in the Letter from 5 January 1848 are pretty similiar.

Acknowledgements

• Hans-Jürgen Wehrle for providing the document copies and some transcriptions
• Eva Gawlik-Sutter for transcription and everything else

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZLD-CFH : 29 May 2021), Louis Kemerer, 1870.