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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that people cared at. all for gettine their
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and they would let. the
bilb
on
thell!
go
unprovided tor till long after they were due. lI'e
kn••
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it
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drafta .e
long .a
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Their
a,rent .a. in
HSmburg.
and 1 determined to go there e.nd MV. II clear \Ulder–
etand1.n&. ouce for all, not only about
the..
particular bill.. but about
all
that
might be draw in futW"e, So 11'8 .topped in London for a
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Chules FeuaD lIhould go wi th _ • • e
the
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al~.
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meet
\1.11
in
liamburg
at a csrtaiu date .
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tM,
gave
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&
week or h'o be–
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it _.
neceBlIaI7 'Ire
,
hQUld
be there , I went With George to Brus.els
for a
da¥
or two , and then made a
little
trip through Holland, vllit1n.g
Rotterciem, Antwerp, Al!i.lter4llm and
the
Hague. !l'h1l gave George a little
vacation before
he
went to work , and n • .,ery pleaJaIlt. I was glad to lee
Hamburg, where I
had
never been before. 1I'e had an amusing incident in get–
Ung there. I did not care to malre the long Journey by rail, and eeelng
a .teamer ad,.erthed to go direct, we took panll&e in her . 'Ie went on
board at midnight, expeoting to sail the next morning. I woke early,
and noticed that we were underwt,Y, and went to sleep Ill;ain. When we went
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to breakiut at eight o'clock , we were lying, very
qu1et~ ,
he.rd and
fast in the
mud.
oro man a long story short, t!lere we laid for three de¥s.
ETery tide a Ip.amodic effort would be
~e
to get of! ,
but
it
alw~s
re–
sulted in our gett1n& on ..
few
yardl farther and lubliding till another
tide
c8llle to induce another WIele.. effort.
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ftnalq
got to Hamburg and I ••• Illfflciently enlightened on
the teason wb,1 we were the only paellengerl on board the steamer . HM!burg
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