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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war
Md ...
killed .. t Cold llarbor. Re ..... in co"'mmd ..t Baltimore in
the eal"ly part of the
war.
I got .. letter from
him
in China,
'
lI¥lng
that
he
wa'
reminded to ..rita me frOlll the f ..ct thnt he .......t that _ent
tQi'lg ..
•
a. all well, but there .... no one now at home but
~aelf,
and I ..a. loon
to le..ve. I had mada
up
'
iIfI
mnd to ,"0 out to China for a .pell and give
.
ucce.,ful oaraer in China. Ile
bad
made IIIOrl IIIOney than
aD¥
of
hi.
prede-
ce..or. in the Mute dnca the end of the neutral trade at the clo.e of
the fir.t China war. Thi.
waf
no doubt o..iDi in a meallure to the natural
expandon of the budne.. of the hOWIe, and to the .trong .ub.tratum ..e
had laid, but ne,.erthele.. , there remained a u.rga ahare of roerit for
h1lII. I
ICII¥
.
a:y
that I doubt if
aD¥
of u, could have done a...ell. I
would not becauee I am too cautious, and Albert would. not beeaul<! he ..ould.
have -mat- befora
he
got there.
On
thlt occluion I attl¥ed in Puil aome four monthll.- that 11
in
P~1I
and London...hera I
had
more or I e.. bu.ine.. , I took room. in
Paria in the
Rue
de
Sese••hera I had the pleasure of entertaining
~
old
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_,
tel' Dixwell and ,: U,. The latter wa. on
hi••
a:y
to .A;nerica, where
he hoped to get tn. ...ent of hia fam1l1 to 111, marrying an Italian
I_dr.
He ",emed to be ,.ery doubtful of hia father', a..ent, and aa he did not
ae~
very IIN.Ch bent on
it
hmaelf, I recommended him to talce ad,Yalltage of
what hit fathe r
had ..
ritten and get clear of it. Ilia rather
had
written
that of ccurlle he could not
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he
l1ked
it,
but he ..ould not forbid
h1.m
o
if hi, happinea••era involyad.
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however, did not think thi •
..
ould be honorable, and ..aa on hit ..ay to America to aee 1f ha could DOlt
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