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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m;y
bedro=, Brooke confided to 1118 that
he
had
been accepted
by 1.I1u Winlor, ad.d.1ng the caution, "Don't
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about it to TiPIDlnl . "
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out .
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am quite athamed that I cannot make the ttory of
IIl;Y
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leriencet more inhre.tiIl8 . I bave forgotten much of thl!llll, but the
recollec~
p erf ect
tion rem·ln. of a period of "delight . I .a. Juet the age to enjoy every_
thin,g,
1
had good health , and
had ,
or
thoU&ht
I
had,
plenty of IIIOney. I
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el .ell eatiefied 'll'ith lIl;Yeelt, felt eonloioWl that I
had
done .en , and
knee tbllt tho.. I cared tor moet thouGht 10 too .
From Rome, Timm'ne and I eent to Naplet. We took the tame oar-
r1ag-e we
had
uled in cOIIlin& from 1lorence.
The
journey wat delightful .
'
Ie eent to the
Hotel
Vittori a .here 1RI had excellent roOlU. lIrooke ,
TiDDinl and I took an apart.'!lent together . Just over UI , or jUst under 1lI .
I don't remetllber .hich, .a. lodged Tbackera,y and
hi,.
da'llj!;hter . We
had
all DIet him before. and
he
lUed to CODe to our rOO1lle to IIllOke hie cigar
and chat . He eae a :IIoet agreeable cOtIpanion . A.t that t\.me
he
ea. writ1ll&
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Ne1fC=u" and
he
often would read U. pae.ege. or chapter. that
he
had
just written. He wal a good deal exerci.ed at that t1:lle by the criticism.
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of 'Iaehington he
had
aaid, "HI fought, like 'Ialhington, in a manner eortlw
a better caule .
u
or eooethil'lCt to that etfect . Very naturally,
the
J.meri-
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him
OV Olr the coal. for
it.
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it to ue, and indited upon
it
that
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beeD milUllderltood. I can't
re~
membe r now ho'll' he made it out, but I wal Wlder the lmpre..lOD that 1
t
.
ould have beeD bette:r Dot to have triad to uplain
it
at all.
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as
In
Engl1shmsn , could not be expected to have the ea:ne idea of 'lfuhington that
we
had .
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