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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1845-1850

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 July 21stMy Dear Son you are rather severe upon I. S M - It is not verystrange that after 3 or 4 years absence and close apphention sic: attention to Studyhe should spend a few weeks or a few months even at home in enjoyingand as it were acting over again the scenes of his childhood. I regret that he has not long ago made up his mind as tohis future course of life I think it would have been better for himbut he will I guess when he can get decided up on something & getfamily engag'd in it pursue it with alacrity and perseverancehe has been helping L some about her Herbarium & has been at work some with Charles at Haying for which he calculates, to pay himand will I presume - it does rather appear to me that duty pointshim to the seminary at Bangor he could probably go through withthe three years course there without getting in debt (he could byteaching 3 or 4 months this fall with both what C could help him pay up his bills) If his mind is right and he feels willingto do what duty requires he can in that way become a very useful and probably a talented Minister I can't see wherein he hasany better prospect of success or usefulness in any other course open tohim at present. However I don't feel very anxious what he should dobut I shall feel quick relieved when he has fairly got settled insomething.22nd Isaac starts tomorrow to go he knows not where and do heknows not what - talks that he shall from Brunswick go on toMass. has been at home just 3 week, is that a very long timeit doesn't seem so to me - the present is a most trying timefor him I have no doubt - we have enquired about a "boy" I thinkthat Moses Greenleaf is just the one -

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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 88

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3499px × 4385px 87.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_88_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGDN

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