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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at trouble in c.nton, aridne trom the
e~er1a.tine
city
q~.tion,
I
~an
about the
r~t
at ,oing into the cit7.
All
~,
thll Chine.. tll1m1nated all eorte of threat. at '1term1nation,
but
all .0011. bec_ quiet. I
think
about thh tllM Sir John Bonine ....
the coneul at CMton. But I am cettlnc;
ahead
at
l1li1
ItOl')'; he wae not
knight.d till .0II1II yean aft.r.
ltr.Bowring ..
a. a ,r.at
JI\lU1
in hie own.
conc.1t, but in that
at
no on••1...
He
had
been
II.
.
ort
at
.
to~
Petrel
all hll Ut., and
had
been 1II11.d
up
1
n ..11 eort.
at
atta1r•• but not <tert
promInently.
He
had
been a Charti.t, a promoter
ot
the Creek Loan, and a
toe.d¥
ot
Lord P.lmnreton.. He had. lIort
ot
_
retriclous .bil1t7, and ....
not without ••ort or r eal abiUt,y.
Iii.
character'll.' well, thou,gh rather
Se1ersly, delcribed in .ome in-ldited, or rathlr unpubl18hed Unel,
by
l1li1
•
triend Uercer. Old Bowrine wae not ..
ta~or1te
..
ith his -ubordinate••
He
one. ,at II1II into
In
a.rul ecrape. The trel!lll in the ,arden in tront
at
the factorie.
had.
cro.n eo rapidly
that
they ccapl.telT .hu.t out the .1n
ot
the rinr. I r_erked this t o
hi.:D.
one
d.a;r
and ..14 I thou,ght they
cculd be tl'1Jlllled out to advanta&e.
J~e
ot
f!J\{
II1.U'prilll the next
~
to ... the
ha~oe
that
bad.
been -.de by hi. order.!
by
bad.
beell 1111.-
=deretood, at eoure•• but the hackilll: and hewing that
bad
been daDe
wa. awful.
The
c0D!I'Il.TI1ty 'll'al h1ch1y 1ndlpent and
uq
connnation 'll'ith
old Bowrine eoon cot 'll'1nd IWd
we ..
ere
tor
a time the lIIO.t unpopular men
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he
act.d .e •
U,htnine: conductor IWd dre'll' the .torm
.
~
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.
here
~.,.tat1on
18 10
rapid,
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inJur7 '11'&1 eOCD loe' Il,ht
at,
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'
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II.
piec.
ot
doggerel wal written
ot
.
hich I
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II.'
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