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 dvn't lena'll"
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l'~
it
u'\lgo,'"eata iteel! to me to BIl,)'
that
A.<J&Ultine
waa a graa.uate of Harvard, as "as
=:r
father lI,.'"Id UncI.
Joim.
Albert wall
Bunt to Yale
that
hiB mo r als IIdght not be cOfl"lJ.pted by Unitarianism,
'
but
when George c&\e
alOnt;
the tillar bad dl ..ppearsd, and he was acnt
to)
P'.arvard•.
I had
often
diacu888d ..1th Uncle the expediency of 1117 buying a
hO'Uu
in
t01nl,
in ..hich all
the
fam1l¥
could be collected to live in
nnter .
He
II.Fproved tl::;e idea, and I W!!.B not, tbereforfl , II!IU:h
Burprhed .her.
he told
"'
II!
one
~
that
he had bOU(;ht
II.
hOllle for $42 , 000.
It
wall No .
:
>
Park Street ,
one of
the
b!>st positions in Boaton, althou.gh not , perMpl , one
that
I
,
ho"llld have choaen .
It
waa evidently cOll\1n&: to b e the fll.shion to live in
tr.e
new houses on
the
Back
Ba,y.
I 'IIould much rather "",aelf live in
the
old quarter, but the next e;ener&.t lon wo\lld prefer to be 8QOr.,g
itt
own
people . Uncle .1Ugu.tlne ..ould not allow
a.e
to be the purchallir of the
he'lle , but 1nai£teil on own1l1€
it
himself . F.e aaid 1 might make any a1_
ter8t1ona I p1£ ...ed, but he would PiIY tor them.
He
had hie own architect ,
WI'\
tort'W"l£ltel,y for lIIe, for a more aarelen o.
Q
~
never laW . 1 l118.de very ex_
t ~nllhe
pl.&n, for alteration. , balling theul on the plan of our old houl8
at Canton .
It
happened to
be
jUllt at the time of the highest I.'rw,lum on gold ,
and eonlequently of the
hi~e.t
pricel of
lJoIlteria1s and labour . Wher. the ho,,"!!e W&a f1nhhed the total COllt 1I'aa
$104, 000 , a grellt deal IIIOre than
it
ought to have co.t, if
it
had
been
rightly
a~ini.tered ,
but infinitely too mucb
a.
it
waa . When the heuae
waa, aa 'llie suppoaed, Dearly fint.hed, I went to Yr. »:>erllon and eatd ,
I
!:
I1.UIt
have an eatimate of
the
IIIIIOunt that would be required to fln1flh
it
Illtirely . After mu.cn urgin« he gave
it
to me . The amount wa. $4500 .
I afterward. patd
h1I:l
$32 , 000 on tM
8
aI:III
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that 1 should pa,y
~
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