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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di£charge before
I
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appreciation of
hia &Coundnllilllll, and
I
bad no he&1tatlon about giving it .
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COUl'Se ,
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l,lll..:entood that
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ould sl.gn our& ..hen required.
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returned frOl%l
Chi"a in about ten month, flIld 1t hap.:.oened tt.at IlOOrtl)' afterward,
I
wanted hi, lignature to
lIlY
petition. Can
it
be believed. that
he
re_
fund it1 ilia .ignature wa. nqulred all Pres1dent of the Third r.ational
Bank
on two loana that ..e
bad
made
to cover the bill. he bad drawn ..lthollt
authority on London
OD
our aecoW'lt.
I
went 1mDediately to our la'll1er ,
Mr.
nu..ell , and told him that unles&
t~.
matter wa. rect1f1ed at once,
I
would call
tha
directors of the ba..."1k toe:ether and tell
the!!:
the whole
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Il.Il.d
that
11
tl:e lallt
I
heard of it .
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l.'here
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I
a plan to rebab1l1tiate t:t.e hoWle by g01118 on under the
name of
Heard
&
Co . , to which both of
IIii1
brothers lent their ear .
I
bad
no faith in
it.
t
knew that the bu,inua, once gone,
e~uld
never be gotten
bod,-
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to
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ae-
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w;t
dilatorinee. .
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aUpulll.ted that
~.tine
the
laut admitted
partner in the no-Wle who got
up
this
plan, with what obJect
I
dcn't know .
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uq
rate, he bolted frOl%l Chl.na as lo"n as be gut me there .
I
went
(
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out by
W&3
of California and arrived early in
Uay ,
no
June,
1874.
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ill
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wal a
failUlS
A-'\g\l.atlz;oe cUd come
out
I>Ilt
not for
lOIJe months
after,
AI loon a. 1 la.. bi.lll I told
him
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