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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 in the house with him. So I ventured to say yes to Mr Mountain when he appeared in the Evening, I do not feel sure that you will think I have done properly in the matter, but hope all is right. I thought at first I would tell him I could do nothing about it, but he said the house just suited him, and he should be very glad or it. Yesterday Gertrude and I have had the parlor carpet up & shaken it & got all right again in there. Found some moths. The carpet had been down too long. It is about three years isn't it? Glad Du Quoin is so fine a place. I should surely wish we lived there on many accounts, if I did not believe everything about our affairs is directed by Wisdom above our own. I should like to send my love to all the good ladies I know who remember me, I shouldI read the evening papers all to myself and mourn & lament over the Freeman's troubles. What does it mean? I read the papers aloud when mother was here,

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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 110

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2360px × 3860px 52.16 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_110_002_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFYP

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