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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great lntereet in
14
r.
Coolidge. He bad
put
him
into Rut.en
&
Co. and I
think
took
hi.
part in
the
quarrel that ret1.1l.ted in
hi.
being t=ed out
of
that
hou.e. I only know
the
.
tory of that affair from
the
account.
gi••n of it by Jorbe. and HUnt.r. According to thew, wr.Coolldge changed
the order. that had been given by Houqua for the readttance of the proceed,
of
hi.
good. in London, and
thi.
actlon reruted in a
hea~
lOll to Hou.qua.
By
hi,
liberality.
:
a.
&
Co. Wttre not obUged to ps,y the lOll, but the part–
ner. of
Mr.
Coolidge were not willing t o continue with
~,
and it would
lIem
tllat they Ifflre right, but I neYer heard
Mr.
Coolidge' ••id. of
the qu.eltion. In
~
ca.. , the relult wal
iII.
my favor, for the houle of
~tlne
Heard"" Co. wal formed, the partnerl being
Mr.
Heard,
Mr.
Cool_
idge, and
Iilr.
Gecrge B. O1"well, llr.Coolidge being the cnly one on the
Ipot.
He
wrote 8D110ully for
Mr.
Heard to
c~
out, and I have
al~.
l\IflpOled that, not w1lhlng to lta,y long in China him..lf h.
(
l!lt
uncle)
arranged nth O1nell to come out a. partn.r. and, perhap., my going a.
clerk ... alto for.lll¥ing a little for the future, a. well al a delire to
benefit me.
I think !.!:.ele are all the pr.lilll1n8.l7 r_erk. I need to make, ex–
cept tllat, p.rhapl, IOll)f!thiD& thould be ..id regarding the political
u–
peet of alfain. What
it
ulnl&ll, clllied
the
Opium Tar wae in full progr....
In 1839 the Chine.e made a vigoroul effort to put an end to the trade.
Opinion. are, and
a11le¥'
will
be,
diTided al t o whether ther were IIC-
tuated b;y a .anae of the evil
it
wal doiIl£ to the pecple, or whether
they were alraid of the .ffect Oil. their !inane.. of the 10111 to the
country of the dIver in which tbe val'll8 of the opium wal paid. CCIIIP
mielione r Lin had been eent from Pekin and placed in Cull charge of
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