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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tor 8ema claret, gben me
by
Ur.
ltarDhaa.
IUId lome G\1aTa
jan,.
and
eigar,
I laid
in tor ll\Y"ult,
I believe I IIhould have .tarved•
.
u
I wu Juat
recoverln& from l11nan, I
_
I
raTlno'U••
We had a Ihort and, excepting for
the
cu1dne,
a .err ple,,·nt
p••
.
age.
It
might
haTe
been IIfIICh ahorter but for the t1.m1d1ty of
the
captain. He
.
barten_d .8011
for every cloud.
.
u
it
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eo
we ancbored off
Central
Wharf
at III1dnight on
the twelfth
~
from
Uatanlu.
I ... on
ahore at
d.qlight.
belDg by
tbh
time
qui
t8 able to
taktl
car. of myself •
• 1
though I
had
been curied on board and
put
to bed. I went to the
eu.tom houI' to get .ome OIle to pa.. lIlY l\1Ue,ge, In
tho••
dat3e
it ....
•
mere matter of form. Dlltle' were .man and DO
one
tbou,ght of
1
IIrof;~
,
UI!&. but for
.0
IIIe
reason or other lIlY man ..... in bad
humour,
and ...1
dl~o
••
d to glve me all
the
trouble in
hi,
power. So
he
overha\l.led lIlY
trunk,
Te17
thoro,,~ly.
Ib.en he
had
got thrQUi;h and I
had
the
trunk-.
on a
handcarf,"
and et8l"ted
up
tbe wharf, 1 laid to h1lll: "You haTe betn:l
pretty well through all
rq
etuff, haven't you?" "YIII,' replied he.
"
Well,' said I, "I have Just
hall
the yellow fll't'lIr, 8Ild I hope you'll
catch it."
Hh
face wal a picture! I ne't'er heard whether
he
eseeped
or not but I preaume r..e did. I wa.
alw~1
astonished that 10 little
!'
u••
was mede o't'er thl. sielenell'
1(
y
clothe. were all taken to Ipswich. 1IIId
w ••
hed in the
ram1~,
Do one leemdng to think of the A_ngllr of eontagion.
Thanks to our short paesage and the .argo's long one, ••
had
caught her,
and
I wa. 't'llry anxioull to rejoin her, and complete the
'
t'O)'a,ge in her.
'
I'1me
wal Tery short, only from Saturdq morning to
To.esdq morniIl&'1 It wal d.one, heweTer, and I sailed in her. I
had
.
lmo.t forgotten to tell of
11\1
meetin& .ith the
fam1~,
which wal
rather d..ramatic.
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lalt ne". they had frOID me "al that I "a' no
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