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Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), letter fragments, 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 2.evening, and for 36 hours before the wind blew like a hurricane, whirling the feathering flashes most unmercifully and piling them in huge drifts such as have not been seen here for many a year, if ever. I never saw old Boreas so perfectly furious. Not till about sun rising this morning, did he cease operations, and it really seemed strange and delightful to look out of doors and find all quiet. The "breaking-out-teams" soon began to pass, and about quarter past one, supposing the roads would be passable, I started in a sleigh for home. We had proceeded by a short distance before the poor horse was immovably fixed in a snow drift, which, before shoveling, was 15 feet high. A kind neighbor came to help release the struggling beast from the snow and from the sleigh and then the men drew the sleigh while I moved from side to side to prevent an overturn. Then we went on a short distance farther and the same scene was enacted again, on a more magnificent

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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 117

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2397px × 3638px 49.93 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_117_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG48

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