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Guide: NM Rothschild & Sons. Loan Contracts, 1818-1937. RAL 000/401

Most of NM Rothschild & Sons' major issues are recorded here in a series that includes, besides the contract itself, supporting correspondence and drafts of documents.

000/401A/1 1818 Prussia loan. 1817-1822

000/401A/2 1822 Russian Government loan. Copy contract present, original wanting. 1822

000/401A/3 1822 Neapolitan Government Loan 5% £2,000,000 / 16,000,000 Ducats. Copy contract present, original wanting. 1822

000/401A/4 Agreement between NMR and the Bank of England for NMR to borrow 3,000,000 Spanish Dollars. Copy; original wanting. 1823

000/401A/5 1823 Portugal 5% £1,500,000 loan. 1823-1852

000/401A/6 British Foreign Life and Fire Assurance Company Share Issue £5,000,000 in 50,000 shares of £100 each. 1824

000/401A/7 Brazilian Government 5% loan of £1,686,200. 1823-1857

000/401A/8 1824 Neapolitan Government loan of £2,500,000 at 5%. Original contract wanting; copy in Italian and abstract in English present. 1824-1825

000/401A/9 Loan of £25,000 to the Prince Esterhazy of Galantha (Austrian Ambassador in London) Original contract wanting; copy in Italian and abstract in English present. 1827-1854

000/401B/1  Brazilian loan £800,000 at 5%. 1829-1841

000/401B/2 Dispute with Mr Hodgson regarding bond 1372 of Brazilian £800,000 loan. 1857

000/401B/3 Prussian Government loan of £3,800,400. Contract wanting. 1829-1846

000/401B/4 Dutch deposit certificate for £500,000 2.5% loan. Contract wanting. 1831

000/401B/5 1833 Greek Government loan 5% £2,343,750. Contract wanting; draft present in French. 1833-1837

000/401B/6 1835 Danish Government 5% £3,000,000 loan. Draft present in German. 1835

000/401B/7 1835 Portuguese loan of £4,000,000 at 3%. Contract wanting; draft present. 1835-1898

000/401B/8 1838 Belgian Government loan 3% £2,750,000. 1831-1838

000/401B/10 Documentation of the transfer of the 1825 Danish loan from Thomas Wilson to NMR. 1825-1855

000/401B/11 1852 Austrian Loan £3,500,000 at 5%. 1852-1854

000/401B/12 1852 Brazilian Loan £1,040,600. 1851-1852

000/401B/13 1854 £2,000,000 British Exchequer Bonds. 1854

000/401B/14 Agreement for the appointment of NMR as agents for the Brazillian government in London. 1855

000/401B/15 1855 £5,000,000 Turkish loan. Contract wanting; copy agreement present. 1854-1856

000/401B/17 1858 £1,526,500 4.5% loan to Brazilian govenrment for the completion of the railway Dom Pedro II.

000/401B/18 1860 Share conversion of the Bahia and San Francisco Railway Company. 1860

000/401C/1 1859 Austrian Government £6,000,000 5% loan. 1859

000/401C/2 1859 Brazilian Government loan 5% £508,000. 1859

000/401C/3 1860 Brazilian Government loan 4.5% £1,373,013. 1860

000/401C/4 1862 Austrian Lottery loan. 1862

000/401C/5 1862 Russian Government Loan, £15,000,000 at 5%. 1862

000/401C/6 1863 Correspondence with Barings regarding Mexico. 1863

000/401C/7 1863 Brazilian Government 4.5% loan for £3,855,300. 1863

000/401C/8 1865 Brazilian Government 5% loan for £6,963,600. 1865

000/401C/9 1870 Russian Government 5% £12,000,000 Consolidated Railway Bonds. 1870

000/401C/10 1871 Brazilian Government £3,000,000 loan at 5%. 1871

000/401C/11 Lombard Venetian Railway loan of £15,000,000. 1871

000/401C/12 Russian Government 5% £12,000,000 consolidated bonds. Agreement present in French. 1871

000/401C/13 Russian Government 5% consolidated bonds. Contract wanting. 1872

000/401C/14 French National loan, 3 Milliard Francs at 5%. Contract wanting; draft present in French. 1872

000/401C/15 Russian Consolidated bonds 5% £15,000,000. Agreement in French. 1873

000/401C/16 1875 £4,000,000 New Zealand loan. 1875

000/401C/17 1875 Russian Consolidated 4.5% Bonds. Agreement in French. 1875

000/401C/18 1875 Brazilian Government loan of 5% £5,000,000. 1875-1891

000/401D/1 1875 Suez Canal Share purchase by the British Government. 1875

000/401D/2 1876 United States of America 4% Funded Loan £62,100,000. Contract wanting. 1874-1876

000/401D/3 1877 United States of America 4% Funded Loan £143,850,000. Contract wanting. 1878-1879

000/401D/4 1881 Hungarian £16,000,000 gold rentes 4%. 1881

000/401D/5 1882 Spanish loan 50 million francs 1882

000/401D/6 1883 Brazilian loan 4.5% £4,599,600. 1882-1889

000/401D/7 1885 Egyptian Guaranteed Loan,  £9,424,000 at 3%. 1885-1887

000/401D/8 1886 loan to Brazil of £6,431,000 at 4.5%. 1886

000/401D/9 1886 Conversion of the Dutch 4% stock into 3.5% stock. 1886

000/401D/10 1886 Chilean Government 4.5% loan for the conversion of the 4.5% loan of 1858, 6% of 1867 and the 5% of 1870, 1873 and 1875. 1886

000/401D/11 1886 Manchester Ship Canal £7,250,000 including 1891 4% First Mortgage Debenture £453,000. 1886-1891 

000/401E/1 1887 India stock conversion from 4% to 3.5%. Contract not present. 1887

000/401E/2 1887 Bengal and Nagpur Railway Company Ltd. £3,000,000 loan. 1887 

000/401E/3 1887 Chilean Government 4.5% loan £1,160,200. 1887

000/401E/4 1888 Brazilian Government loan 4.5% £6,297,300. 1888-1889

000/401E/5 1888 Sweden 3% loan. 1888

000/401E/6 1888 Egyptian 4% loan of £2,330,000 1889

000/401E/7 1889 Conversion and redemption of Brazilian 5% loans of 1865, 1871, 1875 and 1886. £19,837,000 loan. 1889

000/401E/8 1889 Russian Government railroad bonds 4%, £27,685,000. 1889

000/401E/9 1889 Burma Ruby Mines £300,000. 1889

000/401E/10 1889 conversion of the 5% Sterling loan of 1873 into 4.5% Hungarian State Railway bonds. 1889

000/401E/11 1890 Egyptian Preference 3.5% conversion loan £29,393,580, 1889-1890

000/401E/12 1891 4% Ottoman Defence loan £6,316,920. 1891-1894

000/401E/13 1892 South African Republic 5% Government Bonds £2,500,000. 1889

000/401E/14 1892 Chilean 5% £1,800,000 loan. 1891-1894

000/401E/15 1892 New Telephone Company issue. Contract wanting. 1892

000/401E/16 1892 £1,000,000 of Treasury bills from the Brazilian Government. 1892

000/401E/17 1893 Western Minas Railroad 5% Bonds £3,710,000. 1892-1893

000/401F/1 1894 Ottoman loan 3.5% £8,212,340. 1894-1950

000/401F/2 1894 Russian loan £15,820,000 3.5%. Copy agreement present. 1878-1895

000/401F/3 1894 De Beers Conversion Issue of £3,500,000 5% First Mortgage debentures. Copy agreement present. 1878-1895

000/401F/4 1895 United States of America $62,315,000 4% bonds. 1878-1895

000/401F/5 1895 Brazilian Government £2,000,000 Treasury bills. 1894-1895

000/401F/6 1895 Brazilian Government 5% £7,442,000 loan. 1895

000/401F/7 1895 Rio Tinto conversion 1st, 2nd, 3rd Mortgage 5% Debentures, £3,600,000 4% First Mortgage bonds. 1895-1899

000/401F/8 1895 Chilean 4.5% loan of £2,000,000. 1895

000/401F/9 1895 Chilean 5% loan of £4,000,000. 1896-1897

000/401F/10 1896 Burma Railways Ltd £2,000,000. 1896

000/401F/11 1897 Brazilian Government £2,000,000 Treasury bills. 1897

000/401F/12 1898 Brazilian 5% funding £8,613,717.9s.9d. 1898-1901

000/401G/1 1900 Replacement of the 1896 Chilean Coquimbo Railway Bonds £260,080 4.5%. 1899-1900

000/401G/2 1901 Brazilian loan Rescission 4% Guarantees £4,069,760. 1901-1907

000/401G/3 1902 Merton Reward Gold Mining Company. 1902-1903

000/401G/4 1902 Brazilian railway guarantees recission 4% bonds £9,775,920 & £760,000. 1902

000/401G/5 1903 Chilean Government Treasury bills £1,500,000. 1903

000/401G/6 1903 Brazilian Government loan 5% £5,500,000. 1903-1904

000/401H/1 1905 Canada Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company Issue of £3,200,000 Capital 3% First Mortgage Sterling Bonds. 1905

000/401H/2 1905 Brazil Railway Recission Bonds 4% for the purchase of the Southern Brazilian Rio Grande do Sul Railway Co. Ltd. £2,013,640. 1904-1905

000/401H/3 1905 Chilean government loan of £1,350,000 for construction of a drainage system in Santiago. 1904-1905

000/401H/4 1905 Rio Tinto Company new share issue. 1905

000/401H/5 1905 Imperial Japanese Government 4% loan £50,000,000. Contract missing; draft present. 1905

000/401H/6 1906 Issue of £1,100,000 5% bonds of the Lloyd Brasileiro Company. 1905-1907

000/401H/7 1906 Italian Conversion of the 1863 loan. 1906

000/401H/8 1907 Chilean Government issue of £1,100,000 treasury bills. 1907

000/401H/9 1907 United States of Brazil £3,000,000 loan. 1907

000/401H/10 1908 United States of Brazil 5% £4,000,000 loan. 1908-1909

000/401H/11 1908 State of San Paulo 5% £15,000,000 treasury bonds. Drafts only present. 1908

000/401H/12 1909 Grand Trunk Pacific Railway 3% First Mortgage sterling bonds £2,000,000. Agreement present. 1909

000/401H/13 1909 Chilean 5% £3,000,000 loan. 1908-1909

000/401I/1 1910 Chilean Government bonds 5% £2,600,000. 1910-1911

000/401I/2 1910 Lloyd Brasileiro Sterling bonds £1,000,000. 1909-1910

000/401I/3 1910 Brazilian Government loan £19,000,000 4%. 1909-1910

000/401I/4 1911 Brazilian Government loan £4,500,000. 1911

000/401I/5 1911 Chilean 5% loan first series £4,905,000 1910-1912

000/401I/6 1911 Chilean Government 5% loan of £5,000,000 second series. 1911

000/401I/7 1911 Chilean Government 4.5% £275,000 Bonds for the purchase of the Copiapo Railway. 1910-1911

000/401I/8 1912 £2,000,000 Brazilian Government Treasury Bills. 1912

000/401I/9 1912 Sale to NMR of £3,800,000 3% exchequer bonds at liquidation of the National Telephone Company. 1912

000/401I/10 1913 Brazilian Government 5% loan £11,000,000. 1913

000/401I/11 1913 Brazilian Government Treasury Bills £1,400,000. 1913

000/401J/1 1913 Issue of 40460 ordinary shares in Royal Dutch Company for the working of Petroleum Wells in Netherlands. 1913-1916

000/401J/2 1914 Hungarian 4.5% loan £3,000,000 Contract wanting. 1914

000/401J/3 1914 Brazilian Government £15,000,000 finding bonds. 1914

000/401J/4 1914 Chilean Government £2,000,000 5% Treasury Bills. 1914

000/401J/5 1914 Brazilian Treasury Bills £1,498,000. 1914

000/401J/6 1914 French Government Treasury Bills £2,000,000. 1914

000/401J/7 1915 French Government Treasury Bills £2,000,000. 1915

000/401J/8 1916 French Government Treasury bills £2,000,000. 1916

000/401J/9 1918 French Government Treasury bills £2,000,000. 1918

000/401J/10 1919 French Government Treasury bills £2,000,000. January 1918

000/401J/11 1919 French Government Treasury bills £2,000,000. July 1918

000/401J/12 1921 San Paulo 8% Sterling Bonds £2,000,000. Unsigned contract present. 1921-1928

000/401J/13 1922 Czechoslovakia State loan first issue £2,800,000 Copy agreement present. 1922

000/401J/14 1922 Chilean 7.5% loan £1,657,500. 1922

000/401J/15 1922 Brazilian 7.5% coffee secuirity loan of £9,000,000. 1922

000/401J/16 1922 Orleans Rail 6% Sterling Bonds £2,000,000. 1922

000/401K/1 1922 Midi Railway Co. 6% Sterling bonds £3,000,000. Contract not present. 1922

000/401K/2 1922 Nord Rail 6% £5,000,000 Contract not present. 1922

000/401K/3 1923 advance of £2,000,000 to the Brazilian Government with interest of 5%. Agreeement present. 1923

000/401K/4 1924 Japanese Government 6% sterling loan, £25,000,000. Draft agreeement present. 1924

000/401K/5 1924 Purchase of balance of Czechoslovakian State loan. 1924

000/401K/6 1924 Hungarian 7.5% loan £7,902,700. 1923-1924

000/401K/7 1924 Chilean Government £525,000 6%. Agreement present. 1924-1925

000/401K/8 1925 £550,000 Treasury bills for the Chilean Government. 1925

000/401K/9 1926 Counties of Hungary 7.5% Sterling Bonds £1,250,000. 1926

000/401K/10 1926 State of San Paulo £2,500,000 waterworks loan. 1926

000/401K/11 1926 City of Tokyo 5.5% £6,000,000 loan. Copy agreement present. 1926

000/401K/12 1926 Province of Westphalia 7% Sterling loan of £835,000. 1926

000/401K/13 1926 Prussian Central Boden Kredit 7% Gold Mortgage bonds. 1926-1927

000/401K/14 1926 German state of Hamburg 6% Sterling loan of £2,000,000. 1926

000/401L/1 1927 Italian Credit Consortium 7% Sterling bonds £1,600,000. 1927-1928

000/401L/2 1927 City of Berlin Sterling loan £3,500,000. 1927

000/401L/3 1927 Counties of Hungary 6% Sterling bonds series B £1,000,000. 1927

000/401L/4 1927 State of Minas Geraes issue of Treasury Bills to the value of £400,000. 1927

000/401L/5 1927 United States of Brazil 6.5% £8,750,000 loan. 1927

000/401L/6 1927 Pyrites Company Ltd. £300,000 of 5.5% Guaranteed Debenture Stock. Rio Tinto acting as guarantors. 1927-1958

000/401L/7 1928 Rio Tinto £500,000 6% loan. 1927-1958

000/401L/8 1928 State of Minas Geraes 6.5% 30 year external loan £1,750,000. 1928

000/401L/9 1928 Preliminary agreeement detailing an approximate loan of £50,000,000 to the Government of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. 1928

000/401L/10 1928 175,000 shares in the Hungarian General Creditbank. 1928

000/401L/11 1928 San Paulo 6% 40 year external Sterling loan of £3,500,000. 1928

000/401L/12 1928 Chilean Government 6% Sterling loan of £2,000,000. 1928

000/401L/13 1929 Chilean Government loan of 6% £2,000,000. 1929

000/401L/14 1929 Vorarlberger Illwerke Aktiengesellschaft 6% £2,000,000. 1929

000/401L/15 1930 Chilean Treasury Bills £2,000,000. 1930

000/401L/16 1930 San Paulo 7% Coffee Realisation Loan. 1930

000/401L/17 1930 Contract with the Bank of Brazil for a cash credit (temporary advance) of £4,500,000. 1930-1931

000/401L/18 1930 London Electric Railway Company 5% Redeemable Debenture Stock £5,000,000. No contract present. 1930

000/401L/19 1930 Covent Garden Properties Company Ltd 5% 1st Mortgage Debenture Stock at 98.5%. 1930

000/401L/20 1930 Hungarian Treasury Bills £1,6200,000. 1930-1941

000/401M/1 1931 Deutsches Reich & Reichsbank and NM Rothschild & Sons German Government Discount Operation. 1931

000/401M/2 1931 The issue of £5,000,000 5.5% registered debentures of the Diamond Corporation Ltd. 1931-1944

000/401M/3 1931 FW Woolworth & Co. Ltd Ordinary and Preference Shares £8,750,000. 1931

000/401M/4 1931 The issue of £2,000,000 ordinary shares of £1 each in Furness Withy and Co Ltd. 1931

000/401M/5 1931 London and National Property Company Ltd. 5% First Mortgage Debenture Stock £2,000,000. 1931

000/401M/7 1931 Chilean Treasury bills £500,000, £150,000, £2,279,000. 1931

000/401M/8 1931 Compania de Salitre de Chile (Cosach) Issue of £3,000,000 Prior Secured 7% Sterling bonds. 1931

000/401M/6 1931 Rio Tinto 5% Redeemable stock £2,000,000. 1931-1943

000/401N/1 1931 Brazilian Government loan £6,550,000 [funding plan]. 1931-1932

000/401N/2 1932 issue of Brazilian 5% 20 Year Funding Bonds and 5% 40 Year Funding bonds. 1932-1938

000/401N/3 1932 contract for Chilean Treasury bills £54,897.3s.4d, £109,794.6s.8d, £2,392,447,18s.9d. 1932-1938

000/401N/4 1933 Charrington & Co £4,500,000 4% redeemable stock. 1933-1935

000/401N/5 1933 San Paulo (Brazilian) Railway Co Ltd 5% Redeemable Debentures. 1933

000/401N/6 1933 Dorman Long and Co. Ltd 5.5% Prior Lien Stock .1933

000/401N/7 1933 Banco do Brasil Milreis Conversion. 1933

000/401N/8 1936 General bond 4% sterling stock United States of Brazil £1,000,000 advance and £5,000,000 stock. 1936

000/401N/9 1937 Richard Thomas & Co 4% Redeemable First Mortgage debenture stock, £7,000,000. 1937