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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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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 Sometime this winter shall perhaps stay till April or May The weather has been very mild and pleasant this fall & I have got along quite comfortably with the Old airtight____have been in my room alone a great deal of the time Tis rather profitable for me I think as solitude with me facilitates an acquaintance with self perhaps I might not be quite contented if compell'd to be much alone but I could you know (and Have availed myself of the privelege) have the company of Albina & the noise & fun of the children whenever I chose Charles has been so busy that I have not seen much of him except at Meals his evenings when at home have been taken up in husking Corn &c &c Henry Thomson has return'd from California with poor health William Halman & Ichabod Mitchel have died there__________I like very much to stay at Bangor as many accounts more of my Children are there & it is _______________pleasanter in many respects But I feel that this is my home and where I ought to be there seems a propriety in old people retiring from the world and communing with there own hearts and tho' it may not be universally the case yet as a general thing (there is no disputing it) the company of old people is not acceptable or agreeable to the young in some instances not even to their own___I consider myself among the highly favor'd was ever so undeserving a creature so exeedingly bless'd with the very kindest & best of Children & that they should all ___every one be so good

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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 3381px × 4370px 84.58 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_82_003_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG6T

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