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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857 
Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date 1853-1857 
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 Send the funny letter back & I'll send it to Nettie to comfort her. Saturday Agust 26th 1854Dear Albin I must tell you the joyful news how that Maria had a little Daughter born this morning 7 1/2 oclock - was taken sick about one oclock in the night had a pretty hard comfortable time is quite easy & happy now baby nurs'd in an hour after it was born nicely weighed 7 lbs. Lucys health is rather miserable tir'd all the time. Percie we think is a little better yesterday & today - you would hardly know him he is so poor & pale his little legs look like little drumsticks weighs 18 1/2 lbs 6 less than he did 6 months ago. Lucy has already written a letter to Anna & to Nettie - we shall write to Charles & Isaac - and to Almeda. I feel troubled & destress'd at your destress about Charles but do my Daughter try to feel that it is all right & best - & trust in God that it will be so. He can enable you to feel reconcil'd and happy under any circumstances. But your trust & confidence in Him who is always near & never fails to attend to the wants of his children. There surely is great comfort under any - the most trying circumstances in thinking of & trusting in the goodness of God. Lucy talks a leetle that if Percie gets better before the weather gets too cold & if etc. that she & I had better go to Dunbarton this fall - but it is not very likely Hadn't you better come down here & make a visit I dont 
Transcription Status Needs review
Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative. 
Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection
Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record
Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 92 
BibID 821787
Rights Status No Copyright - United States
Contributing Institution Newberry Library
Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.
IIIF Resource Type Canvas 
Size 2663px × 3365px     51.31 MB 
Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_92_009_001.tif 
Unique Identifier NL11FGGQ 
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