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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to
lII¥
regret, and 11'8 aa11ec1
the
I,m"
evenll\& for Canton. I don't
think:
I
ever enJoyed anything eo
much
in
lII¥
life.
11
th such feeling.,
i\
IlUI¥
be imagined hoy I looked fo"ard to
m:r
trip to J4e.cao, "" fint real outing.
The
place
had
ehM&ed TOrr
much
dnct I
1
J.81r
it
OIl
II\Y
uri....l 111 China, more
than
three ;year.
befor..
All
trade and .hipping had left 1t. and
it
looked,
.
s
it
al~.
continued to
look a. long .s I nl in China, utterl¥
dead,
but
l'er), beautiful. !(aceo
hal
quite a
little hi'tory of
its
OWIl.
It
is
OIle of
the
o14ut
Bettl.–
menta 1n the
Ea.,t,
and
itl
name calli
1.1
p
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Oriel of
the
early l'oyagee
in
tho,.
seae, of the
m1.elo~
xavier, and of
the
poet Cemoent, whol'
Lul1ad 1I'ae written there .
But
the
glory of the place had departed. Ve17
few of
the
old familiu renpined , and
the
population conlhted of a
~brid
race of Chine•• and Portug....
The
hi l l' and
the
~
with
it'
i,land, were, however, al beautiful .e ever, and looked like Paradiae
to the eyee t.r.at had aeen onl1 t.be naaty Itreah of Canton for ,.eara.
Ie
had
no house 1ll
~ao
at.
the
t~,
but I wal invited to Ipend aB long
a t.ime as I w1ehed with
lIIr.
ltoBel, ur. Charlea
.1.
i'ear..-Oll waa alao a
resident there, indeed, he
~
uacaol
Then C()1'lI'Ileneed llI3 friendlhip with
him, a friendlhip deetined to end onl¥
Wi
th hie
lif' -
some forty year.
later.
I Ipent Ie.. than a week .D Waeao at thil time, but I n8Ter for _
got the 1.!IIpre..ion it made "POD me. And I then relolYed to have a bouae
there aa aOOD aa I waa in cont.rol which, as will be leen, I carried out
leter,
'
l'"llia ,.ear tha
!
la.pr
Ellen was loat.
She
aailed with a full
cargo of haa for Nili' York. Capt.ain Dearborn
had
a
~ll
ad'fenture on
board. I aeked
him
if I ehould inaure
it
for
him,
a, laid, "No, if
the ship goe., I ahall go too," HoweYer , after the ahip sailed, I did
inaure it, and thereby sayed
him
all
he
had
i n the world,
The
loea of
the
IoIary
Ellen wat alBociated in my mind with
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