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
English
and
American. ,
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ri.th a
few
ParleeB and Rindco.
with whom,
of cour•• , there was no 80clal inter_
course, There wal plenty of
the
Je.lo~
of trade, but in
~lt8
of thil,
a great deal of ldn(l.n8u and good £881111&.
Out
of their officel,
the
r ••idenh were alw8¥'
"
hail
r.llo.... well met,"
Some
w.re unpop1ll.ar and
,
mOl'g
them 'II'a'
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tq
re'Pected
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Wr.
Co011dgl,
I never quite
understood
-
h;r,
for. though rather
.
t1ft.
he
wal a very a,grl'ab18 man
and r"",·rkabl¥ ••11 ;r-ead and intelligent. Jut
a.
I arrived .. perfect
.
ar yal ragln,g agaiut
h1JD..
The rea80n
n..
that
in
the
IDOnth of
Uaf
prevlou, all forelgJl residant,
bad
been req"WIlted by Ce:ptain l1iot,
the
Superintendent of rrade. to leave Canton 1n DODesquenel of Bome
complication, with
the
Chine.8
authoriti".
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Yr.
eaol14&- and
Yr.
!.
tor... t4r./Ilor..
.
u.ccled.ed
in eltCapin,g. but
Mr.
CooUdf!:e
11'11.8
t~n
in hil n1ght clothe. by the Chinelle lIo l dler•• curied
into the city and thrust intI) a foul Chine.e prieon,
antoD&
thieve. and
cut-throat. of the Tilelt delcription, and kept there fortr-elght hOuri,
explcting ever,y
~ent
to be murdered. He wa. finally released,
I
be_
lieTe by the interwention of the Engli.h authorities. Meanwhile,
the factories bad been plundered, the house 10llt all its books , paper.
and DIOneT (not IDIlCh. bT the
~)
and
1
lr.
Coolidge h18 peuonal ef_
feet •• including a cow and a taTorite
doc.
liot 1011& atter, Captain
Eliot called upon all these whe had lo.t propertT bT the di.turbance.
to .end him an account thereot, with tbe view of pre.enting a claim to
the
Chine .. authoritie•.
!.
lr .
Coolidge eent in
hi.
claim for loul'
$15,000 and added 100% for perIanal inconvenience and rl8k of life.
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