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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 Bangor Me.July 22 56Dunbarton Bangor July 22nd / 56My Dear Children I feel as if I must wrote some to you tho' I believe I have written to you since I have had any letter from you But I read one from you to Eliab a few days ago. I can write you no good news of Lucy. Poor dear Lady I cannot begin to tell you how much she suffers you know how she was when you were here it seems to me she has been growing worse - Suffering more & more ever since tho' not all the time alike. She has had spells of very acute pain in her side which lasts 1, 2 or 3 days & then subsides a little leaving her weak & languid her cough & raising continues about the same only of late 2 weeks it causes such excruciating pain in her left shoulder& vomiting 3 or 4, or 6 or 8 times a day & it is so distressing when she does tis so hard we

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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 2886px × 3608px 59.62 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_84_009_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG9Y

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