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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 top sheet onlybut it has occation'd a great deal of noticing care anxiety and patience which money could not compensate - he has not as much of worldly wisdom as some Tis his nature to be negligent- But he has been a dutiful Son - kind and affectionate to us all- He has been and is & is likely to be hard press'd in pecuniary matters - you will say it is his own fault- But it is not so bad a fault as some As to knowing what I ought to have & deciding I dont see how it can be done but cannot there be some plan propos'd for C. to keep cows & sheep for me to have the profit of some kind of a certain allowance of something or other that he can do without distressing him and that I can need not feel dependent. Charles says with an air of confidence that a year from next fall he shall be out of debt - seems to think he shall sell off his cattle next fall and work out in the winter - but he has got I don't know how much to pay this spring (the Chase debt can lay I suppose but at 25 per cent interest) I don't know but I guess there are 50 or more $ perhaps besides - he worked 6 weeks for Holmen & Sargent at 28 pr month with which he expects to pay Mr. Chase as far as as it will go but I am very much afraid he'll get disappointed about getting it. Everett has all Hector's concern in his hands. Hector has as he expresses it made a league with the Devil (meaning Everett) however C. says that they have certainly made a good winters work and

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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 89

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2738px × 3385px 53.07 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_89_002_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGEQ

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