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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wanted to give
!:
lo8
a deee.. of
the
,,1'.
ole property .
!
hit
I refUlled , pointing out
to
h1m
that
it
would be =,lUlt to IllY brothers. He acceded to this, but gave
ILa a 188.$8 of
it
at
$2000
II.
year, which.sa not more
than
half
what it
Will
worth.
We !!Iond
in in
the
nntsr
of 1864 or laGS and ocoupied
the
houlle
until
1675 .
Uncle
~.tine
had hi8 ""om there but he aaldOl!. "'Bed
it .
He carne . however, to dine eTBry
dn¥.
and leemed to enjoy 1
t .
r:y
mother
and Elizabeth Treadwell fermed
ow
r.oueehold . I cannot 1Ia,y
tat
all this
time
1
led a
happy
life .
1
had left China after nearly twenty yeare'
ulrvice ,
with
the
idea
that
I
had
varnell. a rBet .
:
But
not a bit of
it .
I never woriced in China one
bnlf
ae bard ae I W81 J:l&de to work here .
Every mail 'brought loo:e new decomd . 1 was wanted to ,go ta all
f=
quar~
tars of
the
world at enee . I would have gone to China , taken
m;.y
old
place there, &Cd told those there to go home a& faet as they could, but
I
was afX'aid llbut would have ta<::en such a step
in
high dudgeon .
I
nsh
1
had dODe
it.
1
III1ght
have forllltalled the misfortune. that followed .
One of
m:t
troubles
.
a. a
tiu1
t
that Helncrr.ann
&.
~Ion
brol.lght
againlt the house . They c!r<lmed lowe $80,000 foX' alleged non_executioD
of oX'liera. Half their order
lias
for tea , and hal! for tilk . ThI tea
'
lias alw8¥1 illlPolsible of execution, and the _Uk , a_
it
had to be contracted
for , couli not be delivered before the credih expind. The case la_ted
about nine years . Firlt, we 'lion
it,
and the ether Bide appealed.
We won lI&ain, and ti:.el
~a1n
appeahd to the Supreme Court at Albany.
>:hat court did not l'evoke the d.edtion, but
it
sal<1 that Bome evidence
of 1mportance had been l'Uled out, and, tr.enfoX'e, the case must be sent
bac;' f"r a nell trial . It followed exactly the SBL:e cour&e
a..
before until ,
f1nally,
it
was compX'ombed. All theee thill,!;s rnaae
m;t
life m1llerable . lhat
added gall to .o=.ood in tr.1s caBe .81 that the hous' in China inBtead of
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