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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1860

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 And I believe he saw that his not worth any more than he was 2 years ago he is boarding now on Essex Street with a Mrs Ureys gives $3.50 a week his health is better than it was last fall but he is not strong I think he could not perform more than one quarter of the labor he used to in a day yet if he is careful of himself he may be entirely well again after a whileCharles is getting along about as usual I suppose, he has no hired help this winter nobody in the house but himself & wife & the babiesI very much enjoy that you are so favorably circumstanced in regard to society and religious privileges So much better than in any of us expectedMrs. Crosby seems very anxious & yet very happy about William She says he like his business very much & "thinks every thing of Mr. Metcalf & his wife"Is he efficient and smart and likely to make a good Engineer? What compensations does he have?Eliab had just been in here say they have just a telegram from N. York informing that the Hartford had lost all his rigging which will make him another bill of 5 or 6 hundred dollars, but he seems quite cheerful about it. He show'd us a list of Books you had sent for. Why my son do buy so many Books & Periodicals? unless you buy them to give away I should think they would be rather an incumbrance. as you are migratory. If you much read them all I should agree with Proff Sheppard that the more you have of them the worse off you are

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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 82

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3432px × 4304px 84.56 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_82_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG70

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