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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lie got to Sou.thampton in good tilll8 and the u.ual ruJlh rook place
to get off to London in the tint train. I
had
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mil
by Dr. Parker and marked "deepatches for the American Legation." and I
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and envy of
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fellow voyager •• But it was of no use, the train had just
gone, and I had to wait with tlle rest till eTeniue.
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eng~e
rooms for me at Fenton's Hotel in London. In two houre I
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lie got to London in the evening and I found quartere all
rea~
for me at renton'e. I could
hardl,y
realize that here wae I .. the YOUJI4!:ster
of twelve yean before, a gent.1t!!!!ln at larce in London with money in
lI:IY
pocket , and no one to call II1II to came to hll bidding. lowed
it
all to
Uncle Augustine, but. I had a coneciounees that I had not done eo badly
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amd.
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next morning aevera! of
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tbird of iebl'\l&l';.', when I eailed for J.merice. in the ilnerice. and had e.
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day.
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