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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and went to
llb delkl
I felt pretty lonely after
he
left, bllt loon got to be all
right acllin. I had
II
good deal
of
cbaff abO'llt
my
new honour. bllt .oon
began to feel a. tho1,1,&h
I
bad been a
"!
ae-pan"
all
my
life.
Dixnll
wu
very
ltind
and
I
knll1f
my
work thorouchlJr, all .:dept
b~ing
te...
Thele
I tried hard to lelm bllt I nev.r IUCceeded worth
a
cent, indeed, I think
there is
II
good
deal
of
bum~
about it. I DeVer let on that
I
did not
kno.. tne.. and thil
au...
ered .bout ....ell. We did not have
'0
1
I!IlCb.
to
do
al we had had, for Jardine.
had
re8\1lDlld charge of their
01111
bu.ine•••
!
he
Englilh had now all retW"D.ed to Canton and thing...ere
going on
a.
before tre.ty
"'-
Y..
About thi. tilQe the old Canton Reeatta
Club ..as re"li..,ed. It had exilted before the troublel, and. gre.t deal
of interllt .... felt in &:ettil1& it in good shap. again.
A
boat clull
had
been or"anized before thil by eOllUl of the
,.
oun&
.
ilJlarican re.ldent.. It
wa. called the Yah-kee club. or in tn&ll&n, tbe
~rlcan.
A
.
lx-oared
gig
1
m.
built.
She
was rather heavy but decidedly f ••t.
The
:
Englilh
allO got
up
boat. in their own .tyl•• and loon there were quite a
n~
ber
on
the river.
J.
yery nne boath.ollla "a. built, and ae additionl
were con.tantly
made
to the fleet. it -al .oon
wort~
being looked at.
Regattu ..-ere got
up
twice. 1'ear,-
in
the .pring and aut1Dll.. giving two
~.I
sport of five or
.1
x
racel each
day.
Sometime. there WIIre three
day.
I
rowing and, if not, the third
day ...
al filled
up
with .ailing race••
The n"ne.
I remember ln the lab-kee club ...ere
Lo....
Dau&l••
Robert.,
Ho...
e,
Jame.
King and lIV.elf.
The
other.
I
do
not remember.
Robert.
wa.
cock.wain, •• he ....
a
lightwe1&:ht, and
1
think I
ma,y
.
ay
at thie di.tance of time,
Lo...
and
I ...
re conlld.ered the be.t oarl.
w.
beat
.11
the other boat. on the river.
They
were mw::h 11ehter bo.t. and
pulled fe..-er
or
Iculll
oare and,
1
fancy. this, with the fact that our boat _.
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hl. s
u e
ga
a
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ou
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