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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        February 10, 1938
      
      
        Dear Arthur:
      
      
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