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

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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 Mrs. Watson Cottagegrove MinMarch 5 1864 Cottage Grove. March 5th / 64"Have pity upon me, O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched me". We feel that we can ask for sympathy from you, dear friends, for your own hearts have bled as ours are now bleeding. Our darling little Olive has gone. Last Thursday we laid the dear dust down in the cold earth and how desolate seems our home without her. I did not know till she was gone how much she filled my heart - too much perhaps, and a loving father has taken her to himself to know that it is better for her, gone in all her innocence, and we try to think of her as she is in the presence of Jesus but it is hard to look away from our own sorrow. There is such a sense of want. "A stillness aching round." She was taken sick the first [left-hand side]Tell little May that Ollie always remembered and talked of her.

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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 118

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2174px × 3449px 42.94 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_014_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG5H

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