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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

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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 what you are doing how you like your work & how you like the country how Sam's like & what he is doing - I am a little afraid you don't like as well as you expected tell me about it & whether Sam'l is disappointed. I want to know all about how you feel-what you think & whether you are glad you went there. Eliab did not feel willing I should come up in the stage thought I could come more comfortably with him but it cost him some for he broke his sleigh thills which with his house hire would be six or seven dollars I suppose - Mr R R Harkin, is almost gone in consumption is not expected to live many days I fear that they are going to be rather hard with Eliab he thinks they ought to give him more because he has had all the work to do as Mr H has been so sick all the time. They don't seem inclin��d to but perhaps they'll do what is right - bye and bye. He has met with quite a loss again on the Brig Susan Duncan. Percie has had another attack of the croup not so bad as before the little fellow has been wrong'd by being kept in a warm room so continually - has never been suffer'd to snuff the out door air half as much as he ought

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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 92

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FGG4

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