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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notable e::tperience••
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fh11e in London at thia ti.Jlle I wa. a good deal troubled wi th
weaknesa of the eyea. Mr. Curti. introduced me to
Dr.
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oott who aoon
c=ed me. It led to a vel')' pleaunt acquaintance with himself and hia
f&:ll.iq. He wa. a brother of LIt" •• Edward Brook. and she was the mothe r of
my friand,
J'raclt
Brooka. 1 think. there were two da"ll€h t e n, very pleaunt
f;:irh. This WIll the be.t aeaaon to be in London, I we.1 t u re two or three
mont~a
and
w o r~ed
very hard at aight-aeeing, and then accomplilhed all I
ner did in thia w8¥ in London . I aho made many scquaintancea belide
thole I knew before.
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At
thia diatance of time I can recall vary few of
t heir namea, 1 have alway. been sorry that I did not
~e
more
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into the province. , but the re
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10
much to aee and
do
in London itlelf ,
that I never found tilne. !4ere were cOllatant
t~tre.,
garden partiea ,
lectwea. and
~eniD4!:
partiea. I wa. a pretty oonatent visitor at Io!r .
Ingenoll'..
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lett London at thia tUie to ret"W"n to .America. At
hi.
hO"Uae I first
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and
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obar diatiD,gUiahed people. I aub–
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Ilr.
ln6enoll'e uath. She _a a "ur";)' attractive wOO'n.
I thought I ahould have a good deal to
~
about this vilH to
Ecg18lld , but Tel")'" l1Hle seema to come back to me. 1 waa engaged in ....
Ir–
ing arrtu"lf:lCllntll to go for a 10D4!: trip on the Continent , and to make thia
a pleaaant one , I wanted a campanian. The only one tt..-t l8aced avail_
abla we.a William H. KiDt:" of Ruuell
&.
Co. in China. I did not fMCY
h1m
vel')' mueh, but it ... he or no one. He waa a good fellow 8nc1,lf;b but full
of odd crank. . •• made an agreement that wa ahould traTal together IU 10%1&
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