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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T'.nere
I
found
Q.,a
and spent three or four d.lQ'1
'
Ill
th him,
but
I had a
letter from Uncle Au,guatine .Meb alarmed"""
Q
good deal .bout father'.
health. He
advhed
me to 00l0I11 holl1l1
a.
SOOIl 81 I could, and,
tr=
him,
I klle. thh oeant a good
deal .
So I hurr1sd over to Lonilon end got OD
board
the
J!Uropa. which lar.ded CI8 in BOlton, afteX' a very rough paltage ,
in twenty da,ys.
I
found father quite ill and lIIother in gl'eat
di.tre .. .
158
Dr. Bowditch told me at once
that
there was no hope . !.Iother dtd not. re81-
he
it
L"ld we to"k care not. to tell
her .
She we. ver:t glad to have me at
hOllIe, and
left
Bverythillfj; to
.
me , .e.ung
to :re.t on c:e
entirel¥ .
I shall
never coale to
be
~lad
I CIlIil8 home at this preciee time. I
da
Dot
think
mother lIould have lived
thJo~b
it
without some luch tuppo:rt.
I.a.
/
l."1.Xlou8 to
get
father to Ipln.leh
II
loon
.
a
pontole,
for I knew
he
"
ould
be mu.ch mOI'B comfortable at home , and
that
the 'll'oole
h'uily
'
ll'ould feel
bet.ter.
I
accordingly chartered a apecial train , and we got hero 'll'ithout
=ch
htigul .
irom thil time until father" death on the 211t April , nothill8 oc–
curred except the natural COUI"Be of the disease. The very mornill6 of the
funeral aul arrived from Paris .
The
attendance was
ver~
large and no one
ever died Qore univeually rellpllcted .
He
'
ll'as also lovsd by the peopb
of the town. !.i.other bore
Up
very well b:J.t
it
"
as evidsnt that life
had
nothing more for her after this .
I
do not think ,he was ever .ell
again .
S~
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al'll'tl¥••"eet. a!ld kind, and interested in her children , but
I
think .he 'll'a8 al'll'llYs 10nt;lng to ,get awtJ¥.
During
this
tl::le
1
went
with ner to Illake Uartha a visit at
Long
Ueado'll'. J.nd while there met ,
fr the fir.t
time,
~
pre,ent wife , 'll'ho was a quite young girl. 1I'e IUd
not either of
UI
anticipate what the future
had
in Gt"re for WI.
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UI
during the last yearl of
Irq
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