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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11'...
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took ..
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Pra,ya
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char,.
of the house in Canton, and Cau 1M
eood practice againet the tt.e When I ,hould be lett
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to
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rUe .. letter each
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and I loon began to fe.l full confidence
in
iIl¥,.lf. I
occa.1onally .ent to
Hone-Keng.
and there
to~d
mPnT plea._
ant and
la.!ul
aoquaict.ancet, AmoDC them ... Frederic Bruce, then Colon–
ial Seer_tArT. liercar, Colon1al 'f-r"'lI1U'er. John Dent, o.l'i,hoD, J.:ac:kepn,
Du4c.on, Dwllop, and all the other le..unc I!Iercbanta
ot
the place. I __
ta.t cett1nc to be a man, end to reel
~.elt
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uch.
Time went on, end I recall nothing
ot
importance in the monot_
Onto
e~ept
that in U.reh, 1847,
~
brother Jngu.tlne
c~
out 111. tbe
Paul Jon.. and Joined 1M. He had about flnhhed hh eOl,U'.e 111. col18«e
and
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eueer
he
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P\U'.-u.
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lit.
had.
been di.eu..ed br
tile ..
he
he,d,
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t
home, and
they
had
taken me lnto their eOUl1Cll1. I advi.ed that
he
shou.ld come to China.
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tolerab~
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Qpen to
b.1a.
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did not then &%pect to retire
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large
tort~e
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med c.rtaln. Ina-ed, I was .1rea41 worth more than I
had
eYer ex-
pectd to be, and under .ucb clrcwllltancet I could not hdp ad,.ldng that
he ahould come to China, and tollo... the career that I
11'"
alrea41 running
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ub..
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