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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Anstey, Bridge, and WOQdgate Wade 1 have mentioned befon .
He
had
now
becOllle intel1lreter to the Embassy. Anstey
had
been 1n Parliament, where, I
believe,
he
made hbleelf 110 troullllllOlll8
that
they 18nt hinl to Hong-Kong,
ae attorney general, to get rid of
b:11n .
He
wal an agreeable man BDOU&h b11t
was endowed by
the
Devil
hi;neelf with a mania f or quarrelllq . He carried
too
!
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gun.
for
the
other lallYere in the colony Il:J.d I, therefore, retained
him
fll
our eotu••
l .
it
a
alwaye beet to have
the
D6v1l on your lide when
you can. Liv i ng
with
Anlltey ... Wingrove Cooke , who bad come out fl.e
Ipeeial corrlllpondeot of
the
London 'l'imlll.
He
.
as
a very clever
fello.
and I
bec~
quite
1
Ilt1m&~e
With
b~ .
I like to l ook over hie
letter_bo~
to
thil day .
They are very deverly wr itten
and
m·'idnc allowance f or
the
inevi table "Padding." in all
let
tere,bf the kind, are
qui
te
tru.e .
and show
II
clear
insight into
the
atate of affaire . He 1I'a& living
with
Anlltey just
above us , and -
~hey
weTe at OUT house at o11nn'T halt the time. TheTe
wall this gTeat advant.a.ge abou.t China life that you could
alw~s
invite a
fT1end OT two to dine without fe8.l"ing shoTt COllIllOIl, . Parker and I lived
in what Wall called the "Hill Holl.lle , " and I almo.t alw8¥s picked
up
from
one to four to come in and get dinneT with UII .
fo
go back, however. to J,ne tey . I have beard b1.!ll S<l1" things in
court for whicn
be
ougnt to bave been whipped , and all without remaTk from
the Judl;e .
Some
time afteT :Bridge. beceme attorney general and .A.."'IlItey
used to goad him beyond endurance . An.tey once told me I O'Il€ht to have
been 8. 18.syer. Thill was af t er I had drawn
~
and laid betore
him.
case
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not.
I
do
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aide
that
ot hh being
8.
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h.iI
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