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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription She frisks about with considerable life and seems to enjoy herself very much - But she is sallow still - Fanny thinks homeopathy would do her good - But I hesitate about giving her medicine when she seems to feel so well - Father has his old diarrhea trouble - hardly sleeps at all some nights - is up and down all night long - He has very little strengthI have had two letters from Mrs. Finn. Please tell Mrs. Furber that Dr Colby and his wife were both buried the last day of June, at Concord - Both had been sick a long timeP.M. It must be rather a sad sabbath at Portland - It is said that neither of the Cong. Churches that are Burnt out are able to rebuild unless by uniting. - O so warm it is to day - really oppressive it makes ones head ache - But over two hundred at meeting this P.M. and none yet this morning - I do like the singing here. They use the Sabbath Hymn Book V Sabbath Hymn & Tune Book I did not go out this forenoon - When May came home I asked her for the temp She said it was "He came unto his own and his own received him not" - She gave we girls an idea of the sermon - She says she can understand such sermons - She usually gets hold of the main idea, showing that she has understood the design & point of the discourseYour own loving Nettie

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 113

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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