Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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as .ell. There .ere hank Brooke, George Timminl,
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Iol'.
Sam Hooper
and dal,lf;hter, Je.cel Davia and niece,
who
afterward. married Bl"ooke, George
Oxnard, and late of othere whom I cannot r.."..,.ber at this dhtance of
tillle.
Ti.JI>e
accordingly pa..
ed very rapidly and Il£reeabl;y. One of IIW great
amIlle-
manti was the opera - the Bergol••
,
We
had
no entree to loclety and there
wee
DOth1no;
to do in the evening.
but
the
opera.
I believe I ",11
Tro,,~
tore
nfty
time_,
counting
the
nu;p.ber of
time.
I saw
it
aftsI"II'arde in Bome.
It
wa.
a 'I'ery plea,ant l1!e,- all except
the
cold. I real1y tho\l&ht I
should freeze eometimn. 1
do
not
think
it
wae really 80 cold,
but
the
houe", were not Idapted to
it
and 11'0 feU .80.
1
.'10081'0
forget
what
beclllDlll of King after this, 1I'e were on nom.-
inally good term.. but dld not. care to see cuch of one another. So,trClll
this time, each went OIl
hi.
01
lll hook, T1"",1ne took
Kill&"
half of our
travelling clll"riage, and joined
I:Itl
in the jQ'\lTney to
Rome.
Before thil,
however, we took:
an
""'
CUl'don to
Leghorn,
which only occupied us two or
three
~..
I
believe
he
fell in love there but
am
not
aure.
I
dontt
reaember =h about Leghorn.
e.J1T118¥.
The
jou.rn"7
to Rome was delightful. One amu.lnc thing about
it.
was that we had heard that by sending to Rome in ad1'&nc.
we
could get a
paper called a -lascia p...sare
ft
which would eXtllItpt our l"49'ge from exe",-
lnatiou at the frontier of the
P~al
.
tates. Ie, accordin&ly, Wl'ote to
Q'\lT banker.
tor
one, and on arrivins at Monte Gualandro, the frontier
station, demanded
it.
with a veJ7 lordly air, but there was no such thing
",'
..
U.ing for UI.
Of
CO\lrse our aekin& for it andhgettiIl&
it
In8.de the
offi~
cerll dolWly euspicio\lll, and they gave
\
llI
a8 rigid an exa:nlnatlon al they
could. We had not'll1ng dutiable and the only rsB111t of their leareh, a.
far a. they were concerned, wa$ that they did not have their palms oiled
al they would have done baa they been civil,
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