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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Ban&kok, JJnol. Fecchow.
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nukellZ1g, Hank01l,
Tienhin,
and,
in
Japen.
a t Yokohe(1)f!, Ntlgfl.eek:L, and Hioge. Those tn Japan did not. come till
later, bu.t I put them do'Wll .1l11e they are in IIl7
mind .
Gul left China, I
think,
in
the
I:IOnth of I/,lt.y, 1857 and I did
not. .ee
him
again until
r,br>ia:ry. 1863.
He .pent lome
time
in Europe, IIl:ld
among other adventures , was held
up
by
brlganda on the border. of SwUsllr_
land and Italy . This Q.B eomething extraordinary for
thi.
period of
the
world .
He
CaIlle to AIl:Ierlca shortly, or I luppOU.
he
did,
a.
he
wrote me in
April or
LIllY. 1858,
that
he
was an&aged. to
w...
Jane
De
Coninck of :salt.lmore.
I think.
he
.
Ilt
married very
eb.ortl1 .
1
am
qui
te Bure the IliN"rlage
"81
in
the !!pring of that year , 10 perhaps
the
eIIB8€ement wae earlier . From this
t:arrh,ge there he.ve been five
children,
vlz: Jam,
Nq,
Augustine and
Helen !.!ax1lM• .L"lother child died in Infanc)'. John,
the
eldelt,
bean
the
n-me alQ¥8 held
by
the
eldut of
the
teru.ly .
He 11 now
abl)ut thirty , and
,
1
_
a. married to
J,!lu
Adeline 1b.eelwrie;ht te_h).if December, l88t. He hae
•
one chlld, a boy . Hh _lfl 11 ebarin1ng Mil. Il great addition to the f_
ily. !lay _Ill married in 1886 to
Ru..
ell
Gr a,y Md hal ho bOYI , A.v,guIUne
il a railroad man
out
West and
1
fU
IIIIlI'rild in 1891 to
lJiu
Katherine Beck
of St. Louil. We have not eeen her yet,
but
a photograph of her
that
Meline
hal!
11
very pretty.
John wa. educated al a minill& eD6ineer, but seeml no" to be
rather devotiD6 himself to literature. He hal written meny articles for
the
revieWB~d
lIllga"inel of
the
da,y.
and hal luch a reputation that 'lie
all stand in awe of him, and I am rather in doullt al to
the
verdiet he
will
pronou.noe upon thele pfI4I:ee, but , let
him
try to write a eonsecutive narra-
ttVII with II tnlwriter and he 11'111 lee .
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illJilre..10n 11 that Lord Elgin and eu1tll arrived this -=er ,-
indeed, on think1ng
it
over, I am wu.re they did. Hong - Kong "0.1
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