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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never kJ\ew h1.m to "at tight . I bed a bot tl e of Tary nice brand¥ - Bomething
extraordinary,
that
had.
been
prnented
to
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lie
by
IQ1
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ine
lIIerchlmt.
I fOUDd
thh _.
going
do1!Jl
rlth ...
toady .
but
remaruble
rapidity. I therefore
boUCht a bottle of ordinary brandJ and told
him
that
I
had
no objection to
hit
drinlt1nt:
brand¥ in moderation, b\lt.
that
I
had
Il natlU'al . -
'
but
perhspl
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&
kn••• •
for
~
own particular
tap .
!
be
l •••on euttic.d. 1
never
had
occaeion to apeak to
h1m
again .
The
year
p.lted
very pleaaantly but I did nothing useful , exeept
perfect
~.elf
in french with U. Gallail , If I
had
not been an ulueuallf
stupid person I
.
houlri
have mede
lI!1.elf
a good French llehol ar. and , Indeed
I did become eo .1 far .e r ea,l1D4!; and
lFI'iting
!
lor!;
a:ncerned, but I neve r
attained
Il::l
flue=:r in 'peaking. I went to Geneva te eee George occaaion–
ally, amI. found
him
gettiD£ on .ell and economically, which I
bad
not ex_
pected, He C81r;8 to
Pade
and OlfIde lIIe ee'l'eral .hi t. , One
~
I ... =h
,
urprhed to recehe a letter te1l1ug 1118 that
t.
8
Zld another boy "emed
Chapm'n , an En&lhbm8Jl , had madl the .Icenllon of loIount Elane , and "anted
a r8lllitte.nce of
e.
tho-.aand francI to
pay
expenee., George n. a little
under eixteen and Chapman a fe" _nths younger . Ae
the
Job nl done and
they Rre lately back there " ... no ute to 1C01d about it . The only
thi~
.
a. to Pa3. and look plea.ant . Indeed••e .ere quite prcrJ.d of
it ,
but
didn ' t HIlt h1111 to do it -.:aill , They "ere the YOU1\&eet
b~.
that had ner
been
up
and the people
m&"
a great deal of thelll , - ga.e them a recaption
and a dinner . It eo htlppened that
the
eon of KiIlg Leopold of Eelgium .ae
in Chamouni at
the
t1ule . and too:': quite an intereet In the proceeding. ,
Sln.a-Uarly enough , thi, meet1ng of George e1th the future king of llelgl'1m1.
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