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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On
further ren,ctlon I r- ember
that
the
lhip
in which I ..-ent frCIIII
Calcl).t la to Slar ... the ?recur,or. I reeollect
it
the
IIOre
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her coal
took nre
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b"nkerl in
the
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i '
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8
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t
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tbat
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at
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hi'
.
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tilDe ...
hln I condderld
m;ye.elt
in
fJ\¥
dtult;er, There
.
a. another time, bo.....
eT.
wbtn
the
experience
.-
at
dhagr•••blt, to aq
the
h.,t .
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IIIaJ'It
yean a!tlrwat'd, OIl I panage
in
the lire
Dart
from
Banko_
to
SlIanCba1.
when _llpox broke out 1IIIICIil4:
the
Chin,•• p••-
nll4t 1r ., of Ilboci:1. thlrt .ere "Ylral lrwldred
on
bo.rd.
rut UlI\e allO
we ,.cape'"
Yith
the
fri,hl . riT' and cont.e«loWl 01111.'.11.'11. aTe the CTII.·t
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bad
1111
t1TII.t expeTlenee
ot
the Elee-
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It
bad ,
or cours., been invent.ed ,.e&TII. betore , but had not.
r-ac:bed China ,
and
tho.. who l11'ed t&.re had
bad.
no prACtical experience
ot
it. I teleCTIPh8d to Ruseell Sturch In London that I ... Oil. thl
Q¥
and requ.. ted
him
to 'lI&"ac:e TOOlll. rOT _ .t Penton'. Botel.
)
q
object
...
to try the ttl'P'aph , and in an
hour
OT
two I bad an an.wer trc.
him,
.'
¥ine tllat the ro... were enellied. I eN!.
hardl;y
tell
ot
th8 effect thh
had upon me . All the world
had
CT01!D
'
Up
with the telecraph, eo to 'Peek.
end it wa. no noyelty . but to
l1li,
altho'\l&h I
bad
read about it , it elllM
with the torce
ot
a rne1aUon. To talk from Suez to London w•••omethine
new indeedl
j.t Ceylon ..
bad.
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or ,mml tlgated enJOJ'IDI'nt. E'rerythlnc
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