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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 all hurts him very much to swallow his food or talk probably cannot live long - & it will be even matter of rejoicing when he is releas'd & permitted to enter into the joy of his Lord to be where he is, and to behold his glory - I had a good long letter from Charles & Albina they were all very well - sent us 2 prs of nice fat chickens Almeda has a very hard disagreeable lot now besides great labor & care the every offensive odor in which she must live constantly She is almost sick I fear it will wear her all out - James is boarding at Charles Everetts & attending school at the village I've had two letters from him lately he is making his calculations now to earn money as fast as he can till he gets enough to buy him a farm somewhere out west & make a home for his Mother & Lissie - has given up the idea of learning a trade - I had a letter from your uncle Pelatiah not long since he wrote that your cousin Sam'l Metcalf is in Illinois (a land speculator) Josiah has just returned from a 3 years whaling voyage. Maria Stevens wrote me a few weeks ago that Sister Conant & Esther were well She saw Sister Conant at the

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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 2789px × 3618px 57.77 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FGB2

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