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 .bAll not attecpt to d.eaeribe
what
I
saw.
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of riehne •••
that'.
all.
~
Opera w.a a grlat
treat.
I
had
Been nothlnc
like
it
before.
Our
t~atre.
in Jmerica, &0 t ar
.
B
accomodation and ele–
gance were concerne"', .ere much behind the theatres of Europe, and
the
Grand Opal'a Houee 1n St.
Fater.burgh
wa.
one of
the
fine.t.
I do Dot
remem~
bel' DlUCh about
the
perform-Me, e=ept
that
the
great Taglionl danced.
I believe
it
nB her la.t .....011
on
the
.
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one
of her last
perfo:nuancea.
I ...
never
tired of driving about St. Pater,burgh on
the
drolk1... 1Ih.ich are
the
cabs
of
the
place. They are
the
lea.t
eotO!ort_
able of
tul¥
calli I
knew,
but
they"
had
the
adTantace of novelty and con–
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enienc.. !he dr11'el'••ere
.
t-api'"
but
good-natured. lhuIBic equipage.
are .e a rule very
It;vlhh. If
a pair
h
driven, one hor••
11
taucht
to
do
the hauling, while
the
other don
the
~d.ome,
b,. prM'1Cing and
cUM'etting. Where 1'our or aix horae a ue driven, ae thie plan
is
re_
peated With each pair, the effect
is
quite In.plriUng.
We spent a month in St. Peterebur,h before the ahip waa laden
with her homen.rd eariQ, and I enjoyed ....ery lD1nute. 'lfe were rather late
in the a••aon to have
goo~
"
ather, and it waa getting quite eo1d when
we were read¥ to leave.
Uncle
Joe W8Jl.t
down
to
the
ahip, leaving me to
follow the next
d.e3.
I cUd not know that
we
only had permi"ion to at.q
in St. Petereb1.u-gh for a 11lD1ted
time,
but
when
I went riown to the lin1e
pa..an&er ateamer
tor
Cronatadt I waa horri!1ed at being told that
IlI¥
time
wall overrun and that I eould not iO. Here was a !1x for a small
boyl
The
ship _. to eall
the
next mornl"g, I!.lId this was
IIf¥
lallt chanee.
I could not make
l:IiY
explanation underatood.
If
left, I
he.d
no money to
get home lIllY other
-.
a.y,
or to pa,y
IIf¥
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