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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matter to do that. u
the
ship ro1led, I am aure that the creato
of the wa1'e reached lIIe. Unole Joe gaTe me order. n....er to go a l oft again
in aw::h weather.
l'e finall¥ lJIllde Cape Sable and mw;:h to our d1agu.at at the aeme
time 118.. a ahip .hich turned out to be the lorum, which left Cronlltadt a
week after u, and
had,
conHqu8ntly, beaten WI so IIIIlCh. She .aa
COllI–
manded
by
Capt. Caldwell of Ip.w1cb. After auch • rOU4i:h paslage it
we;y
be auppoud I waa glad to ,et alhore. It soon bec!Ulle a queetion
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we..
to be done .1th me. I
had
no great fancy for etudJ, and it wae rather
late for me to take
up
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IT
booke after so lons
II.
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IllCation. I t w..
final–
ly decided that I ahould ba placed in the office of Th'rin,g ,. Perkina on
India Wharf.
I have not mentioned that
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Uncle .ll.lgIutine
had
returned
frOlll eMn" . I th111k in 1838 . Thia
1
e
a great ominion. aa
he
wal de_
tined to e.J:ercilB the lugeet influence onr
I#!/
future life. He had
rooma .t the .albion, but came to our houe on Pinckney Street e'lery
~.
I was 'Iery proud of
him,
for no especial realon except that
he
had
oeen in China for many yeare.
He
wal,
he.....
er, one of the moet
remarkabll men I lITer knew. He had • Itrons
p~lique
and equally
.
tron,g temper and pas.ionl, but under the mOllt perfect control.
During
the man: year. I ••a with
him
I ne'ler once aaw
him
lo.e
hi.
temper or raiae hit '1oice in lUl8er. although often under great prO'lo–
cation. Thie
we.
the lIecret, or one of the eecret., of
hi,
wonderfUl
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aterJ O'Ier othera, especially when coupled With a .ill of great
tenacity. I
do
not thiDk
he
me. the eensation of !ear . Hi. cour–
age we.. pro1'ed on manJ occalion., and men,. atorie. of him are told
in
ltr.
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