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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lIew York before comin,g to China.
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nt
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in 1847, ba'l'ln,g
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had
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the house and to b.ine d8/erred to by lV.ryone in it .
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auece.. were. teat of merit, I
bad
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the
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bad
been 1n China O'I'er .1.....0 year. . So that 1» might
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ot
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had
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of
it
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