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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of
the
Valparaiso, our generOl.l.8 hQst on our litUe YQT84!:e.
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knew him
m!ln,y
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rear.
atter-urdl and al1m¥8
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the tame
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good
fellow.
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cot to
Canton about 3 P•••• a few mlnutee before dinner
-
at
annoUACad, and this wat
quite
a r...,.latloo to
l1li.
There
mutlt
bave been
IIlOre
than
a dosen at the table,
.
t
partners and clerka all .at down to–
gether, and there lfere aI"laVa ttr-,y
caphJ.nl
from
Wbampoa.
The
first
thing
that
.
truck
~
attention wal
that
a bottle of wine wat placed at
each plata .
1
j,h!K
s&1d 1 to
1
lliY1.1f.
I no more ahort. commone here l1ke
the
I.Iary
Ellen,- and the whole dinner
11'8.11
on a IJ&tisfactot'Y lICale of
a"bWldflnce.
Mter dinner, UncI.
~1t1ne
..
aid to
1!16,
·
You
had
better
go
out and 188 the place. There
1.
China Street on one
.1
d.
and Bog Lane
on
the
other . 'fllen
TOU
bave teen
theJ1l1OU
bave teen all, Then come in,
I
have
tomB
work for lOU to do.· He
.
at
right. There was nothing more
to
188,-
at lealt which could be compa..ed in one afternoon. I .ent to
work and etuck to it for three ;yearl: iDd work there meant work!, There
were no hour. of relaxation - ;you were expected to be readt nlght cr
da,y.
wheneTer ;you were wanted, and it __ rare that I left
IIij"
d.elk be–
fore 11 o'clock at night. IIr.Cool1dge
had
a w8:3 of working in the
eTeDing, and
111
¥
uncle of cettin,g
up
early in the morning, 10 that
between the two I got
111
¥
f11ll .bare.
Hog
Lana and China Street were two thoroughfaree running
frQIII. the front of the factoriea to the atreet parallel with the
RiTer at the back of the factoria., The;y were well known to all the
relidentl, and were paned through by allot UI every
~
in going
to and frOlll the BOD8I. Bog Lane wa. a narrow, dirty Itreet, lined
with grog .hopl. und by the lailor••hen they were in Canton on
liberty, and drunken rowl were alwa;yl teld.ng place there. Uearly
all the troul;Jlea at the factories originated there.
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