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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barroom
ot
the Albion to ,moke a
e1g8.l'
IIltd
drink
a gl... of
l_n~
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or a ,berry
cobbl'r,
and, a.
be
.
a.
l1Ting there.
he
lomet1meS came to
the
door
ot
the office to g1ve an order or
p~
a bill. He
la.
~
sitting
there, but took no noUce, and I thought
be
had nClt remarked me. I found,
hOweYer,
that
when
he
came to our houu
be
caMed. to
take
any noUce of
me,
I
stood
it
al long as I could,
but
finally aeked
ht=
wbat
was the
matter. He replied Tery quietl;r, 'I haTe all
IQJ'
life been IlCC1UItomed
to a ..oclate with genU_n, and not with
bnngerl-Gn
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n tap roOl",
It
you
want
to
1
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and dr1Pok. come to
IQJ'
roOlU and. I will I1lPPl,. you,
but
donlt be eeen in weh
plac••• •
!
hat
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t
all.
There wae no
b1ll~Dg.
no scolding, but tbe keenne•• of
the
reproof 10lt notbinc by
that.
I
do
not wean
that
thh
,
tory w.e in
!
Itr.
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orbe ,'
book.
It 11 one of
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I had a .,err pl.asant
tlJa
in
Thw1n&
a.
Perkin.' office,
Tbe
partner. were llllliable, agreeable
1
IIen,
and 'nre very kind to
me.
The,.
bad
taUed within a yeer. and thel'e wae not III'IlCh to do.
~y
cbal'tel'ed ships
tol' Calcutta. and. 'Ua'U414'. arl'anged for t he whole bomewlU"d ca:rgo befo:re
the Ih1p lett Bo.ton, Thers was al'll'8¥S a Rperca:rgo BlId a, so-called.
oaptain'e clerk.
The
to:rmel' 'II'as expected to fill 200 ton.
ot
the homewa:rd
ca:rgo, and the lattel', 60.
Then,
one man agreed 00 import a cel'taln
quantity
of Unseed, BlIother, .0 mucb indigo, another, 80 _n1
gWmy
bag" another .0 much .bellac or lac-d¥e, untU the wholl capacity of the
ship was provided fol' before .he left
the
wharf in :SOston. This was not
a large busine.s, but
11;
W8.1 a very we one. '!he IIl'ael was one of the ,hip'
sent out while I 'II'a. with them. I mention her beeaWle ebe 'll'a8 cmm-nd-
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who
w••
eftet'Q.l'd. wHh
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n the
Wary
Ellen, BlId
becau.s. her clerk wae Georg. Sil.bee, whom 1 have known all
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