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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ma;t
do
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but,
be"are
if
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this 1l1uatrated time and
time
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the
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the
ma,ten.
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only
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b0'U881
were
they
able to ,get on at all. In th18 case, the aervant
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the other band,
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to me to
be
obliged to punhh occasionally. and I never had any troub l e .
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'
Ufo
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the
band play and wae without
Ib' . Fearon
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hllrself understood by the cooliell.
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rascalll tool!: ad"antll,!l;e of this,
and .hen she .anted to ,0 on, pretended not to \l."!derstand, !lIld ret'U.nd to
lIIO"e . When she ,ot bQme she told me the IItOry and 'lias
half
o17ing 'IIlth
vexation. It was impouible to let s=h a thil"lG pan, 10 I had the !ellon
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hB.d.
not un<1erltood, b'U.t th8 cau _s
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~
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To
drop the pigeoll Erl,gliah ,
he
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me on &coount of
the
disturbances of the
~
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above that 1 had refused to
pa;r
the coolin' '118&81 when I turned thfa
into the street.
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had
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