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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d not at lea.t endeavor to co.e to our relief. In., opinion it would
aft.r being .xpo.ed to the
~b.
Our
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ataty wae in our abi lity to keep theM
at
an:"
len,gth
wi\».
our run', But I have no daultt that our action pr...
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arTed all
the
factorial fro. being deltroyed that nitnt. Bad the -ob not
b..n dela,yad by
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they would have had the whola nisht to ,0
thr~h
tbe
other tactortn, and would, no doubt, haye done MI.
About
d:z:
IIIOnth. latar the Chine.e Govtttnmant paid all our
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without intenlt. !hey aho paid our per.onal lo..ea, and I
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tarted afrelh in the world with. capital of about a thousand dollar.,
that beiIl8 the auppoled value
ot
tQf
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IrlOnal pl,mder, 1 thoucht it ....
worth a good deal IlICr., but unch
~tine
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al lietlJ'minad to have no
ued to go on in the old m-nn.r,
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e
thlre
had
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gava ri .. to "'-"y .bu.... - or perhap., irr-cularltin ,
would b. a better word. I th1nk I have before referred to the heavy port
t o
charp. which all foreien lhip' were iJU1)Jected. Theee Qre called ·Cumeba
and Weall.lrement,· and amOUIlt.d to $4000 or
$5000
on ••hlp of 500 to 600
IIInt of OIlq about $1100, but
ot
cour...e tilere were ver)'
f ....
cargoee
of rice,
the
problem ... bow to lleapl
the
hea"Y cbargee ntbout .It.
It
occurred to
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IIIe
one that. u.vll\f: could be made by pall1.nc the cargo of
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