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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I think:
that
emcmg my
sketch•• 111 one of Chinnery himedt.
On
the 4th of October, 1852, I 1181d good-bT8 to China for a
time
at least.
I
had
IIIllde
l.Ip
my wnd
tQ
&:0
bT
wrq
of Calcutta, and, str/Ul&8 to
IItil'. _ailed
in.
the
samo
.
t8_1'
that
had taken me to Bombq four yeare be–
fore. There eere nO pauensere, or none
that
I remember,
ae
tar
ae
Sill&afl0re. There, a large number CEW:8 aboard,
Jmon&
th8111 were uveral
Geman or Dutchmen, a
lJin
HolroTd and her IIIOth81', and .. Be!l&al c1vil1$n
n,,"""d Too&ood.
'!'
hi_ la.t .ae
a very nice fellOW and I consorted more with
h1m
tlwl
NJY
other•• ilL .. Holroyd wae very pretty. and wae quite a belle
in Calcutta, .here I II". her oQoadonally,
OUr
pU88&8
l.1p
the
B8,f
of
Bell&!ll
ea.
Uke
all other panagos.
A
week after
leav10g Singapore ee anchored at Calcutta, and I
~nt
to
Spence" BottI, with which I wal much d1u.ppointed.
J.
fe"
hour. after-
1
I'&1'd., Toogood came to etq
that
by virtue of my being a member
ot:
the
HoDf;-KoDf; Club, I
wa.
admitted to all the Indian Club•• DIIvid Jardine aho
came to 18¥ that
hi.
ho~e
wa. beiDf; repaired and
he
wa. not living in
it, but that a. aoon al it 'IIaa re&.a¥ I /II1Ut come to hlm. lIean1l'hUe. I
wo\1ld ba all right at the lleDf;al Club, to which I moved the aM'e eveni!l&.
I remained here about a month and 'IIal vel')' comfortable.
A
number of 1'e1')'
nice people nr. lhing hera badda thoae who were in and Ollt. Thoae liv_
ing here fonned a .ort of club to dine together ne17
d.B¥.
In thil w8¥
thUT
had
=h better dinner. than
it:
each dined
bJr
h1m$elt:, be.ide the
ad1'antagea of .ociet,.. At thi. di.tance of time I do not remember m ..n,.
of the habi tue-a, but 1IIIlODf; them were
Itr.
!'
rench,
wr.
Thoma"
and
Dr.
Craigie, while Toogood and h1l brother, a man in the Ben&al Fuailie:ra,
..
ere often in. The roOlUl at the club ..ere 1'e l')' good and the living alto–
gether al good al it would have baen in one'e own
ho~e.
Tnere 11 not mw:h to tell of
life
in a city
like
Calcutta, where
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