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.
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country, without lIIUCD. realon. Probably 11.0 one would have dht 'W'bed
him,
al he mutt have been a very h8.rmleu .ort of a eon'plrator, Md many people
thought that he raD aW8¥ more from hit wlfe
than
from aD offended gOTern–
I!l8nt. He went first to India and pa..ed
IIW\Y
yearl et Caleutta. which
he
illUltrated with hil plnel1. I have
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draw11l8' made at tM, t1me of
hi,
earesr ••
It
l ...t. he beard one
d.8¥
that MI wife had sailed to rejoin
Mm, and he lneontlnent11"
~:.red
up
and ttarted for China, where women were
not allowed.
Be
took:
up
hil residence at !llacao, from whence
he
wal al–
w8¥t prepared to take flight for Canton, on the firlt whisper of the
ap–
proach of Me wife. J.t /o!acao
he
.
pent the r8lllainder of hie life,- rn.ny.
1
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yeart, and died there, about, I think, 1865. When ladiel were al–
lowed to come to Canton he
bad
another scare, IIlld aeriously contemplated
a moVI to
J~an,
but be relinquilhed the idea, when it wat explained to
hUll that it would be of no
ute,
al ladlel eould go there, and he would
t1lllp13 be puttill8 the unfortunate wom'n to the trouble and expenle of
another voyage, At
SJ1Y
ratl, I nevlr heard that the eucceeded ln "eom1u,g
up"
with h1m, and he dild 111. peace.
Chinnery wae a very rel!l!Orkahle artilt. I never knew whether he
had.
a lar,e Elu"opeaD reputation or not, but he eertalnlt
had
In India and
China. All hil lketehes were
thorou,ghly cbaracterlltle of the type
he wal reprelenti:Q&, and
had
a cachet that 1 have niTer teen 111. any other
d.rawine;1 111. the ket. He wal very meerly of hit sketehillll, and 1t wal
very diffieult to induce
him
to part with them - indeed, you could
hardly
do 10 unla.. Teu happened to eateh h1lI1 wun he wal hard
up
for IIIOney.
When
he
dild he left more than 7,000 lketchel and water eolorl, 111.
everJ etate of completion. I then got about three hundred of theltl, and
Jolin
Dent wal a large bUl"er.
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aa good ... biD lketChel.
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