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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the
third lot frOfll
the
front, on eplieulatiou.
The
houlle IWd po,ition _re
le•• good
than
our old Dutch factory. but
tbe7
were better
than
the place
we
bad
been in for the palt
few
)"
ear.. .And.e were nearer the other reei_
dentl.- more in Ul, 1I.!a! Ie abo took part of the house in front of
u,
the other part being taken by
~.
I&o,ee, Thi, gave UI very good offic•••
I
al'lllil¥"
howllver, kept in mind the chance of getting back to our firet
location. Bot only
no.
1
t the
be.t
in
Canton, but there ,8_01 to
be
luck
in
the
spot.
It
will
be eeen later how," .u.cceeded.
In thus running hastily over the course of 81'ent. there were
maw _ both penone and
thing' -
tbat
I have forgotten to !!I8ution.
idJ
friend,
'11'1111-.01
J)J.dieott,
i,
one of
the
per.on••
He
came to China about a
leu after me in the Ichooner
Zepl!,YT.
IWd after arrival _S, I
think.
for
aome
t1.mfl
with
hi,
brother James, on board
the
Lintin. After
the
Dart
CanIEI 01110 to ua, IIUId Captain
Kenne~,
who brought her, ....nt bOlM.
we
wanted a c(f:!m!·nd.r
tor
her. Dinell kne... Endicott and ottered
biln
the
vetld.
Ha
rem.1ned in her tor more than a ;year, ...hen he pve her
up
to
Porter, and ...ent into the Snipe. then lying at eumsingIPoon, a8 our r_
c8iving Bhip.
The
Snip' ...a8 eoon tran.st8rred to
lI'o~s\Ulg,
the
Iad,y
He¥8,
Captain Lomglel' taking her place, and Endicott r8l:lained in that Itat10D
tor
mew ;years, goinc into the
illn
Welsh and the ------------
Durinc all thi, time our intercourse "al alwayl intimate and
friendly.
1
do Dot re'!I9'l:1ber
~
dlfterellCel.
He had
hh regular room
in
the
house, and ...aa there quite half the tiwe ....hile we lIere very'
apt to take a
ru.n
down to lool'llll« to .pend a
da¥
nth
him.
Thh friend–
ahip baa continued
up
to the preaent t1me withau.t int'rruption, and hal
been anoei.ted
'
IIi
th
IMW
incldenh of plee.eur. and pain,
I iDterpOte a page here to tell an anecdote illultrative
ot
the Chinele
"8
¥
of thinkiIl&, which 18 au,g.g••t.d to IZI8 by
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