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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 Mrs RootDu Quoin ILLDu QuoinDec 8th 1863My dear Mrs Metcalf I thank you for your very kind letter - I thank you for your remembrance & sympathy - I am always to glad to see Mr Metcalf - it reminds me of happyer days - when my children were around about me - Oh how much grace I need to say "Thy will be done" - sometimes I think my heart says it - I know that God means all this for my good - tho He takes all - it will be but a few days before I shall follow - & then - - - oh & then shall we meet on that land where the weary are at rest - This pleasant weather Anna seems so much better - Our home for this winter is at our old place - we are boarding with a pleasant family - the care of keeping house was too much for me It is rather lonely - tho our DuQuoin friends call often - dear ones they areon side: You cant think how much good your kind letter did me - I am so ready to despond - to distrust have mercy oh God on my unbelief farewell dear friend & forget not to pray for your ever friend S Root

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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 2217px × 3477px 44.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG5B

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