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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I ehauld III&ntion here
that
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Aunt lJary abo l1Ted much with U8 .
She abll¥' retll.ined her room. at
C&"lIbrldge, but paned
much tlme at Park
Street , and aleo at Ip.'II'ich whi l e lie were there. The r=er of 1869 ••
w.re at Beverly. and on our return to Bolton I found aha wee failing .
Indeed thh
bad
been going on during t he la t ter part of
the
.
umner . but
80
gradually
that
11'8 '
IOItre not alarmed.
On
Out" return, however,
it
'
II'ae
evident. and I wee AnxlOU8 t o get her under our own roo f . She Lnaiated,
with her uaual obatil18.q. in eta,ying where ,he
'11'.1,
until I fov.nd
t'lat
I
muet act for lllY,elf . I put her in a carriage a."ld brought her
in ,
but ahe
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weak
tbat
I
wae
obUged to carry her up,tall'e in
::
t¥
arma .
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the
16
th of October , ...hen
,
he
quietly p.u.d
a'l'~
without
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Buffering . The funeral '11'88 at Ip''lflch a
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or two la_
t er.
She hAd
a Itrol1& and Ill8.l'ked character. She ido l ized
I'lY
lat her ,
and her affection fer him wa, tran.ferred. to
hi,
children. As the eld_
est, I think 1 got more
than
my Bbo.re, but thh 8.l'oae
abo
trOll\.
her d,–
pen<ienee on me dul"1n,g the Lat ter portlon of her lifa . 1 do not know
that ahe sboll'Od this feeling 1n any way e"cept by ber diopo,i t lon of her
property. This cons1Bted ,olely of her undivided half of the Ipa1l'1ch
homestead .
J,(y
f ather 01l'lled the other undivided half . on
~~
re t urn f r om
China ,
IIl¥
mother ehowed me his w111, and 1 found tha t IiIr. Haskell, who
drew
!
t,
had mlldd'ed
it
bope l esal.,y .
Jq
father ' . intent10n waa to leave
it
to thl! eldut son , and ta each after
him
in the or:!.er of !!,ge . I n–
stead. of that, Ha&kell had left i t flrst to !:Ie and at my death to
m,y
twee brothere IIIilOng t hem. In short, he woul d have divided what it
was 1mposaibl e to divide .
lq
mother begGed me not to d.1eturh my father
by aay1n,r; Il1\¥ t h1ng on the .ubject, and 1 did not . When Aunt Ua.ry lI08.d.e
her w111 , she l eft her
half
to
rr.fI
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halt
to me
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rrq
brothers after
m,y
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