Newberry Library - 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 much. We were in Bangor & attended the anniversary exercises of the Seminary which were very interesting. Then we visited at Bucksport,Orland & Searsport making the acquaintance of some good cousins almost the first of our name that I ever saw. The elder members of the Thurston family in Maine were our cousins to my father, but we have had very little acquaintance with them. I enjoyed the summer on the whole very much and hoped I was benefitted by the change but after I had been at home a little while I raised a little blood and then afterwards had a severe bilious attack so that I was kept in and not able to do much for two months. I am feeling pretty well & much stronger now, still my side & chest are somewhat troublesome. I do not cough much. I have not been in school at all this year, am teaching a little now. Mother has been quite feeble part of the winter but we have managed to take care of each other mostly. My absence & sickness will explain why I have been so long in writing to you my ever dear friend. I thought to write from New England but you know it is not easy to write while visiting.[left hand side and over main part of letter] I prize your mother & your photographs very much. Have them in my nice album which came to me on my birthday last year. I send you one of mine, as good a one as I have ever had I think. I am rather a hard subject, I think. I am giving you too hard a lesson in patience so I'll stop. Let me hear from you soon. Ever your own friend Mary D. T.

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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 2404px × 3948px 54.34 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_013_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG5F

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