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.
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h.Le th In October , '" moved to Bollton, Alice being a good deal better .
In Novanber came
the
great fire .
It
ctune all neal" to \18 all
the
bottOQ
ot
.
Bromfield Street 8.Jld we thoU{;ht we had better lI1Ove • •
!
ax:
Leede
W.8 IItllJ'io;; wUh
UII
at
the
t1me,
We
went to Susan SWfttl' about 3 O'clock
in the IlIOrniug . The next
da;v .
the
fire seeming to be under control , we
moved bsck to
:3
~k
5
tl'"et, but about 5 o'clock in the afternoon another
a l arm
'
IIaB
given. It 88813
that
a emall fire had caught at OUIl of the
stablel in the rear of 1.0 . 7. 'rhere
.
a.
a great crowd , a. everybod,y "all
ill
a very exeitable
IItate of mind, but I '\lCoeed.ed in gettlll8 JUlce to
llr .
S"ett'. in
lIafety.
After this night, we were able to return to our
own houlle .
The
fire , I
think ,
W8.8
on
the
11
th or the 13th of
l~ovlll:lber .
OUr
boy Jaek. 111l. born on
the
24
th, and in spite of litee'a poor health
all Il.IIIIDer ,
.
he
got
along very well . Jack
wa.
wonderfully like pOOl'
little George, and it 8ellllled almost
u
though
he
held be8n 8ent expre88-
ly to take
w..
place .
In
1873
began
three year..
I
had
lont;;
the troubles which oppreeeed U8 for the next
8
een that
~wel
a
very
carelele Agent ,
but
1
had
alwft,Y.
had ittpl1ctt confidence 1n htl hunelty . For a long
time he bad bad
bUlB
of eJ;cile.nt;e eer.t
him
from
China,
with perm111110n
tc \lIe
aa !II\lCh
of the>:!
a. wu
required to cover
ar.y
10
debtednelll to
him
of the heu.e in China , the \Ulderltandinc
be~ng
aleo
tl::.at
the amo\Ult
10
used 8hould be remitted to Loodon or to China, a ••oon
u
the need cf it
r.aa. P8.loBed.
Duriq;
the
Ipring
of
1873
I
heard from
China
that
remark"
had. been made 1n regard to the amount of the Ie bill. that aeemed to be
afloat . At
the
8"
me
t1.me
came letteu frcm Gul , u;yill& that
the
8
B1lle
stori" were curl'i!nt in I.oodcn, and that Bsr1ll[:8
had
Ipoken to
him
on the
""'-
eft
IJ1lbject . I "ent at ooce to ...- and. D.sked him what
it
meant . He
denied that
it
"8.
S so , and sll.1d that the aIIlOUIlt runn1ng was no larger
tt.an usual , but that it miGht eppear 80 frOID bUll overlapp1ll4!: each
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