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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uw a I:ood deal of
the
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ot
tbAo
frigate Mhd18ippi 1f,dle
.
n.
1
Ia. in thole waterl,
Captain lHeholaon
1
fAa ..
"
lrT pll.h.Dt
III&II..
(
tl.d in
July.
1859,
lIl'1'ited me to go to
J~_
with
him.
Hit 'hip
bad
been dl_
ta.111d
to take over
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Harrh. OUl" 1.I1nitter to
Jap_ .
and to ..
tablith
hl.:ll
in
I,lido.
The
treatT had been Ilgned the year
before,
Md by
it,
trade
.
a. to
b,
op.",.d on
the
4
th
ot
J'Uly.
1859.
I .aa deUghted to havI th1l
op••ortunitT to be
the
fint chiUan to
.
~e
Japan.
.11
I
bad
been
firat
up
Uw YtIl'lCtne,
it ..
ae limply cU't)'ll1i
on
the
_
ame
~e....
Harrh
w.w
~an
dl'ln11'11
ot
a jp"eat 01••1
ot
cndit. He 1Ial
in
JIIilB..
'
I
at Stc.o",.,
when
the
tn&liah
treaty _.
lignlld
at Pelc1n.
He
'
=edlatlq .tarted
tor
Yeddo, and,
arrived there, l 'nt
no
tillle
in
repr•••
nt1~
to
the
Japaneu
CO'/lIt"tlllIent
thet
the
Englhh,havill6 bun IUCCI.t!uJ. at Peldn, would hurry over to
Japan and e::etort a tuatl trolll
the
Japane... -Now,"
add
he, "TOU me'(.
a treaty with me . 1 won't ba hard on you ,
and.
wban the El:l&l1u C(D8 thaT
can't detp·nd lIiO::'e of you than
yw
have givell to
1
IIa.-
50
Ilr.
Eal"rh got
hi.
traaty. anJ. wnen Lord
E~ill
arrivad
be
wu val:'7 courtaoua and offered
h1lll hia Interpratar and all tha tacll1tlea it .a in hia power to cive
~.
The conaequenca waa that the 1n&1ilb got exactly the .,ma traaty that
~e
d1d, no more , no lela.
'
fAe time having arrived when liIr. Barrh Will to 'ba hatalled full
Winhtn, the
Mhe1..1p4
waa deputed to aee that
it
Will done properly.
She wea to be at Tedjo on the 4th of
Jul¥.
We left 5ban,ghal on the 15th
of JUM and ran over to Jagaatlki 1D two dlqa.
'!'
he
ahlp and
tl:.e
ottlcS'w
y....
been
t~re
befora. but. to th8 nat of
u.a
it ..
a rull
ot
the lIIOat
abaorbing inter..t.. :he ba.uty. and peculiar charact.er c:!' the aeanary
wcre great charm8, and wa wera
L~iouw
to go on .hora and wee thia new
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