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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thill,
like the lll8..lorlty of O'..lr president••
Beton this tbM I should ha'u
spoken
more parUc'llla.rly of Albert.
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usually lived "ith UII at Ip,w1cb. and much of ht. time _. taken
up
in
the preparation of hill book, whieh he afterwards called "The
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Church and
Rusdllll
Dillsent.· I t Clbodied an b.::."ense amount of information,
Mil "". extremely well written . Probllbly no book on tl"..e .ubject contains
as
JlI'I1Ch . It
was
publhhed
by Harper'. in thiB country . and in England
lIi=ltaneoull.y .
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IJI.lhJect
wa.
not a popular one, and he neve:r
could
have l!:JJlected the book: to lIIfIke money. I
do
not
tl'.1nk
s;ny
account
'11'11..
ever rendered to him.
When
the
IIdrn1ni.trntlon of
lb".
Cleveland came into power ,
William Endicott of Salce and II claBlI:l&te of Gut.'B, became his Secretary
of War. He, apparently, could do notbin,;; fer Gus . but he gave the poet
of hiB .,rlvate secretary toilberL Albe:tt spent two or three yeara in
lashinc.ton Vbry pleasantly, and when tbe administration went out of
power , Endicott got for
him
the POllt of librarian to
the
War Department .
For this, he
bad.
to paBs a civil eervice examillation . I think Albert
enjoyed his life in Washington very =h.
He
DB very much llked there
Wid.
went a good deal into lociety.
In 1890
he
_
a taken ill with a trouble that be bad had tor a
long tilDe .
It
followed all. attack of Grippe, and, as s=h thill€6 alwa,yw
,
io, wel.t
t~
his weakest part. John, Jr ., went on and wrote
~
at once
that Albert wall a vcry lick man and
ti;.at
1
bad better COlllB OD . I ar–
rived tl.. next
daJr,
and Dr. Wales, who ....as in attendance, told me that
blood polsonlD6 had aet in and that there Wal no hope . Re lingered a
fortnight
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