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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 Mother MetcalfBangor Dec. 1856ElyriaMy Dear ChildrenI suppose you have heard of my being suddenly & violently sick with inflammation in chest - the Pleurie Liner & I don't know what not inflam'd right lung entirety in active (perhaps I don't express it right) But the pain was dreadful & the laboring & raging of brain in half sleep almost as bad - after trying Dr. Paine as was E's choice awhile he went for Dr. McRuen - He thought I might not live but a day or two - among other remedys they put flannel wet in boiling hot Lineament or as hot as fingers could get it on to my side & shoulder from the 5th day it subsided very fast - and - by absorption a very uncommon case the Dr. said especially in a person so old They wrote to C. he came & stay'd 4 days, walking &c with utmost solicitude O I have had every care & attention - What Children I have - was ever Mother so bless'd & Hattie so efficient - good & kind

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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 84

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2908px × 3579px 59.59 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_84_018_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGAY

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