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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wlln
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ceOi'm a greet variet)'" of
uticlu,
IItJp8clelly silk. , They were
very
beautiful but
hard.ly
of a lUnd
that
would. be uaeful to our idess , Wo
were
alBO
taken to the Cutle,
but
were limply pr=enadel1 inlide
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uti
stroll4l:lJr.
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n
8
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but
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that
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lcel!. of wealth and power. which was only confi:t'med by the knowledse
that
l:I8ll¥
of
them
could put more
than
ten tholllland men in Une of battle .
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but never lucceed.ed. No one tried to ,top
us,
but no econar did "e
get
ouhide H.an
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that
we
were foll<:l'II'ed by II number of Japanese of_
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1
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the
time but
~ub.equent
evontl made
it
leem more
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tmy
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Japane"e did not "ish to involve themlelvee
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ILn¥
di~ute
witb foreign eutboriUel , and they could not tell 'tout
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n..,
malt 1nterelt_
1
n&: 1n ..... life .
b
aenaation _. a ltrane;e one , _ that we were in tb.e
capHal of
tl.e
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Je~loully
guarded people 1n the world, .eeine a new
art and a new c1villaaUon, a!ld tbole of a very high order , made
uti
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bad
been
aeC'latomed for yean to an a:uu.ogoutl but different habit of life, and
could bardl; reconcile
the
two.
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Chinele and Japanea. lee_d a
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