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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 Mother BangorSept. 10 1856Dunbarton Bangor Sept. 10th / 56My Dear Dear Children O that I could say something to comfort you. But I can only point up - the way you know "narrow but pleasant way" yet alas tis easier to say be reconcil'd than to fully & freely feel "Thy will O God be done. I had so long seen that it must be do - that I was in same sort reconcil'd to Lucy's death. But this sharp sudden blow. Dear precious Mayo I hope not to murmer but I did so doat on him - I dar'd not say how much. But still the heaviest of it is what I feel for you. I am smitten too in another branch my dear little Lucy that has these five weeks past fill'd

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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 84

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2338px × 3594px 48.12 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_84_013_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGAD

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