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Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife) Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1847-1866

Title Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, 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 stand and step a little - she kept gaining till she got so she could walk all about and remained so three or four weeks but did not seem right well any of the time - she has a peculiar whiteness in her face and hands all winter which cause us some uneasiness. One evening about four weeks before she died she complained of pain in her left side. I laid my hand on to try and ease it and found her heart was beating violently - in a day or two she commenced coughing and we took her to St. Paul to see the Dr. he called it palpitation of the heart and seemed confident that he could help her soon - we proposed staying at Fathers a few days where he could see her often but he did not seem to think it necessary and so we came home but she grew worse and we sent for him in a few days - he then called it organic disease of the heart and gave but little encouragement that he could

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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 118

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2188px × 3471px 43.49 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_014_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG5J

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