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.
China Street ..e • Itreet of • reepeeteble eharacter .t the
other end of tbe factori.e, r=11l& ln the 1_ cl.1r.cUon .. Hog lAne,
It
eonta.1ned molt of the ueent .bop.
of
the silk man, and the .eUers
of matt1nc. flre eracker. and .11 lortl of ebow-ohow. It ... a. respect–
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ble .e
Hog
Lane ... the reYer,e. There were two China .treete - old and
~ew.
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be
new etreet •••••bort cl.1.tance we.t
of
old and TUnIIinc paral–
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the upper end of the old .treet we. tbe ConlOo Hou.e.
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t~1II,
thou,sh whetber
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took place thlre ...
nIT
doubt_
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In fact, the whole buslnes.
~uarter
of the fore1ener ... the.e
three .treet. and the .treet along the rher on whlch thl Hongl fronted,
and from trhieh tbel extended to tbe rlyer, a distanee
of,
perhapl,
1000
lards. Ie eould co throUCh .cae streets between the.. and tbe
c1",
wall. but thlre ... little indue_nt . One of the.. It:reeta ...
e.lled bl
fore~er.
Speetacle Street, probab17 becauae 1t ... full
of
ebop. with loold.nc ClulU and palntlncs on Cla..
of
the
coar..st
dellCrlptlon. .About a 1111111
up
the rher were the Yah-t•• Cardin., to
which we used occadOllally to Co . They were toler.bl1 well kept and
.
howed the Chine" .tyll of caruninC.
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~t
the HOn&2 templa
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of
idola. One of the .iChtl there w.. the lacred plg.
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