Some business records of Phipps & Co are at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. Their catalogue describes the business as follows: 540/310-318 relate to the affairs of Heyworth, Phipps & Co., later Phipps and Co., of Liverpool, trading mainly with South and Central America, especially Brazil, in coffee, bananas etc. and also having branches at New York and New Orleans. As they were Commission Merchants, ie middlemen who bought and sold commodities for others on commission, I suspect they also dealt in other produce such as cotton, as that would have been the main export out of New Orleans at that time; I don't think there's much evidence that coffee and bananas were ever shipped to Liverpool via Louisiana.
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