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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1860

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, 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 My Dear Children Milo 15th Nov. / 53 Your very surprising proposition has been constantly thought of and faithfully talk'd of But I got before my story I mean to say that C. reciev'd your letter last night. C thinks favorably of going and a number of circumstances seem to favor his going he had already sold 10 tons of Hay and Pratt's man is here today buying Cattle so that he can dispose of all he wants to at a fair price I suppose but what to do with the nice Grey Colt is the query he is big enough to sell or to work but has not been broke in so that he is not Saleable nor so Suitable to leave to growhe has two younger ones 1 2 years the other one - which he means to keep Charles has a nice square Chamber finish'd off with a little Closet with shelves, & three nice large drawers on the South side of it & on the north a dark room large enough for a bed but design'd cheifly for a clothes room - has got the back chamber where the hir'd men sleep lath'd and plastered all nice. A granary & workshop in the west end of the woodshed so that he wont have to carry corn wheat oats & beans etc. etc. in to the chambers - wasn't you a leetle disappointed when Anna did not go to see you as she expected I have not yet learned the reason why she did not tho' I had a letter from her a few days since I shall know all about it when I hear from Lucy againC. has just sold some of his Cattle to pay on the debt for all he has been so situated with Pratt that couldn't very well set his own price & now and 2 or 3 times before he has sold the cattle from 1 to 5 dollars more than he gave, just as soon as he got them before he drove them out of town. I wish C. was a littleright-hand side more like S.W. Furber about trading.

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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 82

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3477px × 4318px 85.94 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_82_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG7P

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