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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A.dc.1rab l'out1atine and Llkacho!f . and Captain Boutakof! ,
but.
often
the;\'
were a
.
ae~
lot.
Ae 11'8 were in China to malre
money.
and not. to t)u-ow
it
a1l'lIJ.' in entertaining the
Runlan
navy , I did not aea
i1.,
and tholl&ht Albert
"'
a' ora"y. After
I had
been conaul for a few yearB
the
Runlan
aovlIrnment
uont.
1118
the
order of St . Anne, but at I have never been in Ruaaia since ,
it
ha8
not d.one me
any
good . £lice haa had
it
81
an o:rnament , and
~
baTe .orn
it
ODce or
twice .
I
thiclt
the PQrt'Uf:eae Government gavOiI me the
order of the Holy Ghoat
but
1
have never
had.
occalion to falre me. preuve.
811
itl!
knl£ht . I think
that George
wal bitten by the lIame mania all Albert,
tor
he
.
loaeo~d
out in an Acerican
unlfo~
a.
Secretary of the Legation,
and a mall. delicate straight ••ord.
It
.81
about
thi,
time
that
an incident occurred to me
that
af_
forde another 111uetratlon ot Chine II! character . Here
1.
the atory :_
It
baa ott&n been alSerted that in China a life m1ght be
bo~t.
t!:B.t h, a man oond.e=ed to death oould get another to takehit place for
monel or money" ,.orth. It happened along in 1859 or 1860 that our oook
died.
He
had been in the employ of the Cnu.e for a long time.
The
but–
ler oeca to lUIe II:e and l,laid he had alwa,yl been a good man , Md that he
bad not left hit fwnily
IIno~h
to bury hiIP deoently. Thil
~
have been
1,10
but I sm inclined to thiDk
he
"
aa rather dra'll'ing the long bo,. . HO"eYer ,
the ,,1IIh "1,11 that I .hould alSht the family, 1I'hleh I "a' quite 1I'111ing to
do, and I gave them
$60 .
Thi.
"
l,Ie a large I'llill in their eyee .
The
next
c1a¥
my ob&1r ooolie Oa:::l8 to
tr.8,
Md &aid
he
hnd
heard of thi. g1ft . and
if
that "ere to be the rule, he ,.ould liloe to
take
$50 for hi. family, and
'
tep out himself . I IUIked him
"
lv
he "Mted to die .
He
.
aid
he
did not
"
ant to die parUoularly" , but that
he
had lived about forty ycar. Md
had
not had a veI}' good ti!ll8 , He was about tired of carrying people abOu.t
on his shouldere , a.'1d
if
he oould secure a coo;petence to his facdly he
1
fl'I.'
ready to go . No". "hether he "ould have carried out hit intention or not ,
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