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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and
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ll'hlch _ .en eiraid to make too
high.
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in
t1ler;ty years hal crown tl:e pre,ent club. with over 500
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than
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schooner of
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tone, and rell80nably fa.t. In her, at firat, I
won nearly all the racee I 8.11ed, but gr&dually (aliter 'boats were
built .
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WILe made the 1"1r8t CmrtDodore of the club, but I oll€ht to BI\Y
that
David Seara "auld have had the a.vpolnt.ment. only
he
bo.d no yacht. at
the
time .
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continued to be
COOlIl·odore
for foW" yeare, and I beHeve I gave
n.U.faction.
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1:111
tenure of office the New
Yolk
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a (,:1"e&t race and a dllUler at 'bIte on Point Sh1r-
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he
died
after one year'.
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and
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foll0••d by
J .
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Forbes .
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cup fer three luccessive years . Ths Pnritem deflated the Geneata:
the
t"'yflo'ller,the Galatea: &lid the vohmteer, the Thietle. Glory enough for
a yo\Ulg club . This is due to
t.:r.
Paine and to
lb'.
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the
gebeeca for three years and the.:. lold her to John
Reed. I believe she
it
Itill running; if 10 ,
,
he
must bs forty year.
old. She hal fl(;"ain been flaglhip of the Ea.ltern Yacht Ch.b .
Ie gave
up
our house in lleverly and moved back to Ip.wioh
for the s=er month. , in 1872 ; that 11,
we
moved to :Bo,ton in the fall
of that year and did not return to llever1,y . During tt..at year Alioe 'lias
very ill indeed, and we ....ere
vet)'"
araiOUl about her. Suu.n Nicholl
ca:;;e t" lleverly and stayed with us during
the
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ne.. , and rendered us t!::.e greatelt service .
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