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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 is leader, his wife, organist, his sister one of the chief singers the choir is large some twenty five there today. Father has been for several days suffering from diarrhea. Was not able to go to church this morning; & Since we came from meeting, Fanny has read the morning sermon aloud to him. May thinks she could understand it all And the chapter in the Bible too. She had read three chapters to me since the afternoon service. Monday morn. Another delightful morning. I should like to help you eat strawberries & green peas. I havent seen either, save .half a dozen wild strawberries we found when we rode Saturday. We found any quantity of wintergreen leaves- I think May gains some in health though she is very sallow. She wonders what awakes her "sleep and well have and so ugly at home". She says she kept waking up at home, but

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2390px × 3883px 53.13 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_113_016_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG2A

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