Newberry Library - Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Overview

Image w/ Text

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Open book Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife) Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1847-1866

Title Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, 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 so I hope you will excuse this. I have been very unwell ever since dear Susie died but am more so now. I dont know whether I am rebellious and unreconciled to the will of God, or why it is I mourn so all the time, and want her with me so much. No one knows what we were to each other. I was with her the greater part of the last year of her life, and now she is in my thoughts the last thing at night & first in the morning. My physician says it's thinking of her and living over the last weeks of her life, in my thoughts that is the cause of my illness, but I cant help it. Merrick sent his little Walter, a dashing boy of five years, to stay with me, and take up my mind. He was with me six weeks. I was sorry to spare him then, but "Papa had the first claim." When I commenced this, he was at my side

Transcription Status Needs review

Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 118

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2214px × 3477px 44.08 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_011_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG59

Help Need help finding, searching, sharing, or downloading? Check out our help page!