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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it.
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taken h1w'elf.
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had
forgotten the
clrc~tance
en–
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beUeve I
knew
how
I
had
addre ..ed him a fell' dayl before. He then. rtlpeated
what had occurred, and I eaw how gro..q 1JaperUnent I lllUIt haye appeared
to
him.
1
haltened to apologise and to explain what wal in
~
mind when I
epoke 10 to
b1m.
The
ston' is a pendant to that of the Albion and it.
bart'oOlll.
I could tell lots of storles to Ulutrate Olle of tb& finest
and ItrOllCelt charactere I have eYer knOml, but I ehould be udloua.
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B. Forbe.' ·Jlem1niscences.·
j.
clipper barque, called the Sap pho,
bad.
been built for u
br
Mr. J.J.D1:nell in .ll:ilerica, but on her ar.i'l'al in China, she wll8 found un–
suited for our purpose. She wal therefore loaded and ..nt
home
for sale,
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Id Uncle A1J€UsUne took pallll8e in her.
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few d.a,ys before she wal to
sail he al<c:ed me if I would pull down to
m",npoa
with hilII,as he wanted
to get his cabin in order. We started. next morning at Ile¥break but were
rather lat. for the tide, which turned againlt us before we
had.
got half
wtq.
This made a hard row for the month of J:llgult. In order to l ave the
Ude back
'11'8
could Ita,}' but
II.
short time, but, after all, we had the seme
hard. luck going back. !lIout half
wa,y
I _s as llick al
II.
dog, and
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old
gentleman quietly proposed that I should le,y in
11\1
lculls, and he would.
pull t.he boat.
up
alone. 'r'hh, for a
II!IID.
of l1:z:ty, wal prettI plucq, but
of cour.. I would not &&ree to it, and ins1sted on doing my ahare. When we
got to Canton I went to bed, or rather laid down, and Uncle took:
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