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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eitting down and goirl& over
the
calle oarefully to see where their real d efeno&
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I'I'ote a
buJI1..-um
letter full of generalities and epeclf1call¥ givir.g
up
an indiaputable Une of defence . 'l'hh
btter
they Bent to
1
IItI,
requolt1~
me to for1f8rd
it
if
I approved . I promptly dest:roye<l
1
t .
lr.Iaglne
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sur–
prir.e, when they sent by the next mail from China a duplicate, direct .
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wa.
too
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whole
~.ine
••
of the hou.e wae menated in
~h
the
~~e
!
ilalUler .
I had
never
bad.
a
reclamation all
the
time
I
wae in China _
now
11.
seemed to live in thea , Albert cama ho::1tl and AugullUne
>rer.t
out.
but very little chane- occurred.
The
houall had entered on
lin
unfortunate
cQurse , and
it
is
al"8¥8 difficult to retrace step• • Augustine made 10ll1II
8..;
aamodic att8ll!pta to reduce
QIll"
enom"ul
e~en.e.,
but
it _.
u.vl.no:: at
tne spigot and letting go at the bUIl€ . The Interer.t of all
tho!
em._loyea
wee on
tLe
aide of extravao:;8nce, and
Ii
ngbt
of thi. kind h a deaparate
one . It wa. all very
w~ll
to .pend freely when you were
W8ki~
freely ,
but
it
wall a different thlr.g when earnilll;1I began to ful
are .
There
wall
80
me excuse for extravagance in good times , for then wo were so bUlly
that we
had
not t1mo , literally , to watcb the e:xpenlS8.
At
IIlI¥
rate , our
expensel
Be~ed
to increale rather
thaI'.
diminish, and claim. llke , but
not
'0
large . as that of
H.
G:
P •• Car.le
in ehoul.
T'niu
wall
the
moet
un–
happy
period of
~
life .
But one great good
c~e
to me in
1867.
The daughterl of
Dr.
Leedl came to Iplw1ch to
cake
a little visit to Elizabeth
Tread~ell .
and
wcre there about ten da,ys.
It
wa. not lon.e; before
I
fell in love with
Alice and wae accepted after some obJectionu on the part of
Dr.
Leeds,
on the loore of difference of .,;e ,
and
rel1g1OUl faith .
We
were married
on
tr.e
31
lt of
January.
IS6? ,
in
the
church
of St. Peters in ihlla()llphia
of which
Dr.
Leetis was rector. 1'e CMle jrooediately tc Park Street and
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