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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lub.equeutl;y.
~n
purehaBu .e!>t on full ann&:. I .ent to America more
than
a thoulland
dollars'
worth of truck, all of which w.a
f\llly
appreciated .
I
SupPOI.
tbia repre.ented at le••
t
double
.
hat
could be bought for
the
lame money a month or t.o
latl'1' .
The Ame!"ican consul,
1
Ir.
DorI', had a temple auigr.ed to
him
at
K.IU"'r~&
aa Q!'fice and reeidence , and hoiated hiB
flag
on the 4th of
July .
In
the
meanUlIIEI , the
!;
hd..
1
PF.!..... wUh
I.!r.
HarriS on board, had proceeded
t"
the anchorage off Yeddo .
On
the IIIOrnil:{; of tr.e 4th
we
landed ,
the
prep_
U8tiolle having
all
boen made by
the
Jape the
~
before . I 'IIent. a8 an
extra leeretary,
it
hav i ng
been
IlllderBtood
that
DO one but
the
1
II101lter
and hiB Buite ,hould be allowed on loore. The
da¥
'11'81
eult17 !lIld rainy ,
and .e the distance wal great to
the
t~l.
that
had
been .a.igned to
~ .
'
III
arrived there
prettT 'IIell be<irac:E>led, lINCh to the detriment of the
nice clean IOlllh with wbich the building had been furnbhed . Kl)t
ll)~
after we arrived , a dinner I)r el)llatil)n was uned . It eon'hted of
in–
numerable coW'see, Wil.l entlreq 1n the Japanese Ityle, and had been sent ,
10 1
I'e were told , by the 'r;ycoon. Among
mIIll.Y
M,nel that 1I'e did not recog_
nize were raw fllh. I tal ted thb frOll! c\U'iol1ty and wal II1.lrpr1eed to
f1nd
1
t
II) palatable.
In our tra,let to our rtllidenee we had been carrled in NOTrUien, the
native conveyance and molt uncomfortable thing. we found
th~ .
One could
neither lit, nor stand, nor lie
do'llll .
'!'
he etreetB "ere full of the populace ,
and all kept in perfect order by fellowB tlmt anl"ered to the ancient
lictorll. '!'hey went ahead of
u.
and .hook bundles of iron :rinel from the
end of polea .
The
dq
after we were 1n&talled "e were taken on a lort of
royal progreee tL.rough the city . 'Ie r.ad the Bame guard . the e&:lle 1ron
riDgB, and t:-.e nn,e crowdB, only more BO.
It
Beeliled aB 1f tile whole
population had been notified.. whu-eaB, on the first occasion . 1
t
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