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.
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e:whnnged treaties, which
nQ
one
ehe
had
done , he had
vldted
Pekin Sld
bee~
well received. and had lustalned hi. aide of the contett about cere-
I bok
a -reat.
deal of interest in all this matter, 8S
ID¥
brother
...
as one of
1
~r .
Ward'.
attaches IUId
.
a..
the whole thing .
!
Iy
account of
it
ia
.,..
etchedly bad. There was a great deal to tell, and yet, after all, r;ot
much
that
would interest people far away . The million now returned to
Shant:hai and baving nothing farther to do, lIent
o:r
to
Japan
on a frollc .
George went alao and, 80 far 1n China, aeews
tQ
:
r.ave done nothin& of much
use.
B-J.t
1
think
an educat10n of this Bart.
1
$
the
beat one can have.
I went back to Hong Kong and put on barnell again. 1;0'11' follo'led
II.
bng
interval of time
dUl'lng ...Moh
l¢/
11
fe 1mB paBsed in the d1achal"ge
of ol'dina17 duties with nothin& of lnterest to
8
Il:iI
one. Indeed, I
do
not.
know what to write about. We were unlfo=ly succenM in buulneu, but
had
no
IUrri~
I'I8.ttera that lmprelled thePIlelvel on
Il\i'
_
ory .
I
wal
back and forward t" Shan&:ha1, and made leveral tripl in
the
l"ire-Part to
Haniww, alwlI,{l acCOClpan1ed by I;ndicott. The8ll'l trips were very plell9ant.
~ frieu~s
in
Ho~
Kong
r~ned a~olt
without
e~ception.
Sir John Bowring
had g iven place to Sir Hercule. Robinson; Mercer was still Colo11111.1 Sec-
retary.
I
had begun to think of goillb ho:tlll'l, and of giviIl€ Albert !Ill place
at
the
bead, but now that
I
could go
I
began to have
the
ulual nostalgia
of China. However,
I
made
re~
and went
through
the uBUal leri81 of
dinnen,
I
did not think
1
.
hould ever return to China, and, tc tell the
tr\1.th,
I
felt pretty well .atllfied with !IllseU.
1
left the boWIe firmly
e,tabU,hed, rich, and lecond to no other .A;rierlcan h)use
1
n
China. Indeed,
~
I
doubt
if
may
would not have cal18d
it
the
fint .
,
I &8.11ed in
the
ColUlllbian on the
lat
of December , 1852, 8.."ld bad
the
u1lU&1 palaage hOme, arriving in P8.r1l on the
~th
of January, 1863.
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