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.
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the petty 111$ of life aa to find one
t ,
.
elf without money in a strange
place. Brook, Wllld to
tell
a .tory of
hi,
be11l& without moneybn Spain
~
in Granada, I
tb.1nlc,
and
the
bankers telling hlln that they
bad
never heard
of
of Hartog Brothers
&.
Co. I
bad •
shl1lar
8
J1perienoe in J'ranee.,..wh1ch I will
tell in due tiJzla.
about the place, which 11 an ordinary. huetliD& ae8port, but we found. frlem.
there
who
luduced WI to
,
t3¥.
.
MIo%l6 them
were Ive.
Bat,.
and
Harle
ston
Parker.
T1mm'n.
left. 1;18 here, as
he
bad deCided to take a
trip
through
Spain, which I did not. care to do. He .",iled for Barcelona and I took
1113
p...
age for
Pari ••
I did
not know
wbat
the journey was or
I
never
would
at_
tempted
tel
Co thro\lbh without ,toppll\&.
.
t
that
Hme
the
rail only went
from
~.e11181
to AviPlon. and the 'ood.¥ of the diligence ,,801 put on the
ral1"l11 truck•• At Avlgnon
it
wal placed upon
ita
own _haele, and on
them
we rolled on to Iqonl. where we were again trantferred to
truc~
and
earrhd by ran to Paril. l1e .ere fifty-ho hourt in lIIBkina: the Journey
end the irktomene.. of sitting in the eonttrained potition required by
the
coupe of the diligence for that diatene.
~
be imasined. At
~on,
I
uked to be a110.ed to take ...eat in
the
ranway ear, offering to
p~
for my seat
in
addition,
if
nece.sary. I .as refv.&ed, being told that ..
bad
been .eighed in at warseillet and it
.
a.
nec.ssar,y we ahould .eigh
out the t81:le in Parh. J.nd thb .a. in one of the brigbtnt, .0i-d1sent
eountriet in the world1
In
Parh, 1 deseened at the Hotel de I!ouvret, at the eorner of
ths Boulevard end the Role
de
1.
Paix. or-ne next
da¥
I bunted
up
Stephell
Bu11<>.rd,
who
.
at
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in
Parts
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llhen I paned thro\lgh the year before.
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bad
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