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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that
I
"
as
Ju.stified in p1acin& IllY opinion against all the 'll'or1d. I
think
Augustine agreed .. ith me, at
~
rate
it
did not take him twentl- four
houn
to do 80 after he got to China , and thell
'
If'
both reelhed
that
we
had
10_
curred the sacrifiee of a year of our ltv•• , and the expfma. of
the
vOYlI€e .
to Clll"ry out an idea of ........, and
a .
The children ..ere
at school all tb1l tiLle, Llaie
",
t
141
u Sengera: Jack at
Hannah
MamB. ,
~n IB?~
.
e
le~.ed
Dan
~urti.' ho~e
at ?14 Beaeon Street, at a
var.! cheap
r80t,-
$1000 a year . It
.
a.
Dot 1n very good
order,
and only
partly f-"1'n19hed , but 1
t
answered
ow purpou
very well . We caved up
ear~
in November. I
do
not remember anythinG of importance
that
took place this
winter . In fact, l ife
had
.
ett1ed
do~
into a very humdrum affair and I
llhall have vary little IIlOre to tell . I forget "hether JIlb.ert lived with
u..
thil
winter or not .
but I
think
he
"
as i n l!Urope .
We
had
~r .
Curti,'
houoe for three or fcrur years
e~d
then took
lodg1ngs with
wr .
Tba¥er at
295
Beeco~
Street .
I
do
not remember whether
.
e s"ent one or two )'ears there , but we were at Ipe..ich during t he ..inter
of
16
B3
and llber t epent it eith us tbere. In the epring of
1883 _
.
April
I
had a var:! severe ettacic of l11ne88 . llbert was with
Ill.
during t he ..hole
of thie i11n... and eae IlIOst kind
and
useful . This lasted in an acute fOnll
three or four ..eekl , but
1
did not regain
m;r
Itrell6th for levcrt\.l montha.
Uiee eu awfully good to
me
dur!
~
t!:le Whole of
IllY
1
llne8l .
She
waa in
Ealt1more, or ratb{r at A.tlantic City , wllen the iHneu cODlDenced, but
ce:ae ..
Qme
at once.
While
Wi!
were at LIra.
~er ' a
Jack broke hie arm. He,with ecme
other bOle, were pl&J'ing on the top of lome c-_ re
that
had been
nitchlld
cff the tracil: at
th~
lIoeton
80
Alban;y Railw/IY
Station, when he elip;.oed and
the acc1<ient occurred . Alice wae in Baltimore a t the time cut
ca::lB 011
ae
BOOIl al lI!::.e
go t
r::;;
letter .
Dr .
:
Beach atteuJed. him, a!l.d in a little
over
Ii
u j eti
l
&&
ain
w l
n ., 1
d. wit
alI¥
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t:{-f
re
1
n "II
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