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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,
he
wu then <J1.lite ready to drop me. I bard-
1
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hill' ...
e.1o, until T'mn'nll 1llld I were
Oil
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way back frOID liaple, two
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Dlontha afterwlll'd•• We tOllChed at C1vlta Vecohia in
the
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teamer.
whee
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he
came on board e scorted by lheble. who. howeTer.
lett
her there.
She had been in Bome ever lIinca, and ••• now on her
W8¥
North, •• indeed
were we, but we did not let on. We found
,
he
wa. going to ,top at Genoa,
and on our
arrll'd
there .atched our chance and went to
II.
different
hotel.
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~
or two at Genoa and worked hard to C.t thro,-"h, when to
our horrQr, in one of the
galbrln
we
t'lllllbled
d1reet~
upon her. She bad
met
~
old friend Robinson, and hit wife, in Genoa, and attached herlelt to
them like
II.
Umpet to a rock.
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had
given her to
undentand that
we did not
intend to atop i n Genoa, and here .e were e&u&ht in
fla ....
ant. deUeto, but
it
dld not teem to matter to her in the lell.st. She _e JUllt ae smiling ae
eTer. and
lHI.'
8'1
idenU¥ deterndned not to be offended, Thie wal the la,t
I BaW of her until
O\U'
arriVal in London, ...hen I found her .t8¥ing at the
Robineon'e and dined there ...ith her. This ends the
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'
episode.
In the ntuC t houlIlI to ours on the COriO .".er e the roome occupied by
the
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and Duehe.. of Wellington. I met
him
once at dinner
II.t
J.Ir.Rooker'e.
wr.
ijooker, by
the
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a,y,
eeemed frightened to death at
the
big neh
he
had
ca,-,£ht on hia hOok. During the CarniVal we saw a good deal of them. He
waa a very ordinary, c'YD"Ionplace man, but abe _a a creat beauty and ve ry
had
clever. Her ei,ter.
Lad¥
Dalhousie, 1 llIet in Calcutta and made a pallla&_
,
with from India. I head afterwarde that ehe died from aeaelcknelll before
.
he
reached the end of
t'te
vOYB€e, but I ...
u
not on board at the time.
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l1.li
the
Lad¥
Charlotte
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.
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amIleing incident comee to
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hac1
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or
two,
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