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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well ae
the
old. Hong eylt_. and never bad
the
lame
feeli~
of .araty
in our tran.act1onl. Nothillg of inter..
t
took place t1ll t01llU'di the end
of
the
year. late I
th1nk
ill OCtober. Then occurred onl of thole di ..,–
troue fir•• for which Chius,. cUie. are f8lllOUll.
The
al&nll wa. given 'II'h1le
we ,w.rl at dinner about .a.ell o'clock in
the
eveniDi:.
Uhr loold.ng at
it
we
re~d
OUT teat. at the teble, not bel1eT1nc
it
would end'nier U6 in
t~
le'lt.
but
luch _I the ra.pld1ty1fith which
it
'
Praad
that
iD 1... than an
hour •• were all hard at work ,ott11101: our boob and money removed to a
place of Niet;y. I
ought
to haTe ,aid before this
that
Ie had leU
=
temporal7 quarters in
the
Imperial
BollS
and taken
\
lP
our abOde in
the
l.et
rectory of
the
:
rrench
Hong.
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name. of
the
different
Bong.
"
ere
de–
rived from their original occupant" and were never Ch·nged.
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pr.,ant
!
setary abutted on the back .treet, which altbo'UCh con"'en1ent in getting to
the Chin.l.
Hong.
on bu.in'II, was a d·ngeroua pOlition in a caae like
the pre.ent and very =nch
~oaed
to fire from ita vicini\7 to tbe low
Chinese hou.••••
1'.
got
0\1
l'
trealu.re and booka and luch perlonal .ffectl .1
w. could get together in a hurrJ Ou.\ into the little aquare in front of
the factorie., and aa it waa very IDUCh exposed ..hile there to the ralcal •
..
ho gathe r very rapidl¥ on luch ocealione,
0\1
l'
next thought ..al to get it
conv87ed to one of the old Honga where
we
knew it ..ould be lafe. We
had
about $:JJO,OOO and
1
t
was hurriedly bundled into a chop-boat, snd dtlpatched
on itt Journey down the river for a 111118 or '0, and I wal given a !D1liket
and told to go in charge of
it.
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do
not think that I
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ever in 10 lIfIlCh
~er.onal
danger a. on thi ••hort trip in charge of the mon..,.
The
river
wal ae light a.
~
fram the conflagration, and from the light. of the
inmmerable boats in motion on account of the excitement. I waa enUr . It
alone with the exception of the boatmen and
the
few houle cooli.a ..
ho
cams with
the
monel. Scarce ly a boat among the number that I\ll'rounded u.a
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