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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l{hoolhalclrJ.nil . They wen 'll'e17 large anil rich people, and were 'll'al\1,-
abl, corr eepondenta , I .all, of courle, 'll'ery attentive to them, and went
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thi~
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before I wal to
~all
on
q
r",tum to China , I went t o
milk.
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fa.rewell call . 'l'heir office .al in a SI:08.11 dirty hole in tl::e bazaar ,
the lalt place .here one would have expected to find a rich Me.
pro~_
perO\l8 merchaJ"lt . Yhe'l I got
up
to tMe leave, <r=olJee stuck his
ttrucll into a pot of yello. paint, and with
it
gave
t:lB
a amooch between
t!".e eye. , put a diamond riIl8 on
tf\I
fiD«er, and threw a
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ha.l
over
fIlS
shouldeu. I 1"JP..,Ole the 'paint '11'9.1 a lort of baptlB111
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his
Olm caste . I got to rrv carriage ae soon as I cO-:lld, Md occupied
fIlS
drive hoPIe in t:ylng
t~
get the paint off .
I think the aha.l and ring ..ere w;;,rth about a thouP..'"ld rupees
each. All preeente gi'ten in the tatt lIhould be returned in othert of
equ.al value , and th1e I did cn
r:JiI
arrival 1n China. Perh&?e . however ,
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