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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I did Dot know
him
very well,
but
I could Ilea
that
he _II a great talker,
and _. probably Wlrel1able, I had , holle'ur, no one else, and 80 had to
do
the
but I could nth. him. HI! ...e Dot all bad. I
think:
he
was toler_
ably hon••
t.
and be 1Ias a go_ahead short of chap, ...11(1 'IIo."ud hurry thill4':8
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The -Fire-Dart
I·
all
(
ha
called. her. •• a Iv.cee.. liS a boat.
She arrived in J.prU, 1861. While ahe
had
been bu11d1n& the war
had.
been
~oln&
on, IUI d
h.ad
reluHed in a treaty. by ...hleh eMu. had a,;reed to open
threa porta on
the
Yana:tlZe, and, .a \1IIual, to Pili!' a heavy indemnity to
England. I have not attempted to give an account of
the
detail. of the
war. 'fney are euily accellllible ehewhere, anli I, 'peaking onq CrOll!
memor" ahould be very lweclll"ate.
About thil time I ..... made Portu,gellll
con~.
I had little to
do and
the
only object in beln,g II
co~.ul
waa
that
it
gave one ace.... to the
mandarin. in cas. anything occurred
that
made
it
either neee.sary or de.lr-
able to eel them•
SQolletillle•• too , it IlliCht be trouble.ome; a., for ill-
•
tance, 1f
.0
IIIe
irate .tipper of a Loreba to..k
it
into
hi.
head to .'lave a
ro..
I
e.eaped, hoWO't'er,
all
trouble of thi. kind.
It
wa.
not fa:r from t1'l1ll t1me that
I •••
al.o made eolWlll for
Rlaei. at Hong-Koll6 .
I
did not want to take
it,
a.
I
could not .ee .hat
good
1
t
could
do
me , or the house, but
I
eoneented,
a&
m;r
partners
all
thougbt .e .hould be adopted
into
the Imperial
Femi1y
in about
I1X
conth. !
I
could never under.tand the
•
aer...e.rn....
ent with .hieh Al'cert ,
in
particular, pursued t1'.18 idea.The .hole th!1l&
11'••
an
lr'menee bore
and
co.t
WI
no end of money in the
.
ay
of entertainment , while
I
never kne.
of itl brllli':ln,g in one cent of profit . l'/hen
the
Russian
ehipe Hre in
port .e .ere overrun Yith
all
the ecallytrB£:.
01).
board of them, fello1l"
cOllling to eat, sleep
and
live nth us, Sometimes they were gentl_n, 11ke
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n
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