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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 I began this several days ago but baby has been very sick so I didn't finish it He took a very bad cold & it settled on his lungs (is teething besides) his breathing was dreadful the Dr. call'd it congestion or lung fever - After much demur & some hard speaches by Hattie because E. did not send for Dr. Payne the child growing worse in spite of Eliabs application of cold water bandages to his neck & all else that we could do E. started off & got Dr. McRuen - He bid us take a thick woolen blanket wring it out of hot water and wrap the child in it - we changed it once & kept him in it 4 hours it soothed & relieved him very soon - He was taken last saturday night 7th is now Saturday 14th pretty well again but quite feeble So nervous & uneasy & gets tir'd so quick that Hattie has a hard time as well as the rest - Hattie has taken the babe all to herself, ever since it was 3 or 4 months old it has not slept with its mother at all H. is so impulsive all hoighty toighty it makes the child so to but she means it all right is very kind and good & E. and Maria must be under life long obligation to 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 85

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2811px × 3615px 58.18 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FGBA

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