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 alwl!\¥B faU "hen I t.ry to dellc:ribe any atrong !eol1Ilb
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I have .
It
BelllU to me that
I
only talk nonsenae. He left about
halt
a million .
After a few legaelea,
it
'1111.1
divided equally among the four of WI .
This
_
I
a:lother reAlQn
wh,y
I could
not. go to Q:lina .
It
waf
necnsary
tllr me to
'
t8¥
at home and look after
thi,
property .
I saId, /lome W"¥I bilek,
tlult
llbert and 1 sailed for
~ope
in Novemcer, 1872, or 'lias
it
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r
Geor.. e waa born In JUne and 80 far at ,. could Juo:I&e at tl'.at 84!:1
wall a lIlOet. lovely and loveable boy . I "Ill in Europe about a month. I
ciid DOt.
enjoy
it
IllU.Cb . The bueinee8 we
had
to arl"an.;:& waa not. of a
plea.
ant nature . Parh was a very aad place in cOI<lparhon 'II'ltl'. ny' recollec_
tiona of
it
In
the
full glory of the Er!lplre .
as
war of 1870 had just
ended, the plliCe '11808 only
half
lighted,
it
wat a gIoOJ:l¥ a8a80n of
the
;
year, and evtI"'.ibod¥ wal sad. We
g~t
home in Febt"Ua.Q'. The pe."age waa
10
l14!: and atormy. It eee!.-e te be alwB¥1
1
IIlI"
luck te ma;'e _inter pauagee .
OUr
firet great eerrew in lite occurred en the 1st of J.prll in the
Ieee et our dear li ttle Geerge. Pert-ape I W6ht not. to epeak s,) "her. I
bad loet father . mother and Ullcle.
It
did not leem to me t1::o ellll<e
thing . We falt very serry f r their 10". of couru . but at their aee
it
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a thill6 to be looked for .
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he
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heart
up
by the rooh . QeorLe'e illneu _as ver-J sr.ort . "ll'e heard
b.im
fretting liuring
tr.e
night, but thoUi;ht nothing of
it.
Nor liid
he
seee
to be =h 'II'OrBe in the morning , so
that
I went to
llliY
bueinel8 as usual .
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bout noon, however . Alice 8ed for me anli 1 found a lieoilied change
for t:.e 'II'orae . We &ent
t~r
Dr .
bUnot b....t
h.e
coulli not be founli, and
then .. got
Dr .
I'arran . next lioor. He at ODce ahowed great 8.JUlety,
anli aliopted coat energetic mea.ures, but all ws of no avail as George died
about five o'clock
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