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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wee a place seldom vi8it8d, unl••• one had a vessel of
hi.
own to take him
there . It
had
been newly opened to trade, principally,
if
not entirely,
by the 'e&aclt:r and enterprin of Edward C=lngham of Run.l1
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quite con.plCUOU8 in the eh1pment of
the
early new tea•• We had an eB–
tabl1ebment there, of a
men-ger
and a tea-ta.ter and a .mall houle, bired,
or bought , from one of the 1II1 ..1onariee .
From Focchow we proceeded on to Shanghai. I
had
not been there
dnce the port n.a firet opened when we .stabHehed Charlu rearon there.
W.
were
there for a ccruple of week. Blld bought
the
property of 0lnbaDt
&.
Co .
ru.
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nne property and consisted of
the
hoWl' and godown.
on
the
B'wld , and
the
hO\Ule Jut back: of
it
.
here
the
olerk. lived. The
pOBltion _ ••e fine I ...
BJI¥
in Sh.nghai ,
the
be,t With OM or t'll'O
n:_
ceptlone , and equal to the
b.,t.
We
paid 47 , 500 taele , equal to abo'U.t
$64 , 000, and
h.a<l
our old property to aell . I
d.o
not relHmber lICat
it
broU«ht,
lIubllequent~,
but the new place did not .tand
u.
in more than
$15 , 000
or $20,000 .
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tor
hOllle in
!
lay
or June . I COWld
the
work little less hard than it used to be , but the hours were more
re~
lar and tlIere 1I1l. little night word: except at 0011 time . There lIere t wo
or three dlQ"a in each rortn1.gllt lIhe;) the work of the head or the houle
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own III1nd , and then write
hi.
ordera to the different porta ; bellide t hiB ,
he had to regulate the finance a of the different port. , The lIIen lIIen'glng
there never had a care about thi. _ they .imply
tat
down on the
head
at
Hong- Kong . It 'II'al hi. bUBineea to keep their account. in hia
head
and
aee that they were .uppl1ed wUh money .
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