Newberry Library - Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1845-1850

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 Milo Oct. 15th 1847Dear Brother JosephAlfred Holman is going,to Bangor tomorrow, so in quick haste I scribblea few words to go with him and a bundle which I had been some time waiting for an opportunityto send. The article which is wrapped roundthe shirts is for Anne. Please wrap it in a paperand deliver it soon as convenient. I send theshirts which you are to dispose of according toyour own discretion. Mother will tell you about them.We have wondered and wonderedexpecting every mail to hear from you, for a long time. Three or four weeks ago a letter wassent to you containing 16 dollars, 15 of Almedasand one for Ann, this receipt of which we have beenexpecting Almeda worries much fearing it islost. Isaac's big bundle we have heard nothing from whether it arrived safely or not.Do write and tell us all about the thingsI cannot stop to say any more - Albinais waiting for me. Why don't Eliab write?Tell Ann I have been spinning some amazing pretty stocking yarn. Fourteenand a third skeins to a pound. Am going to spinsome for her. Goodbye - Aff Sister LucyDon't you expect to come home this fall. Do.

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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 88

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3477px × 4436px 88.29 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_88_013_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGE9

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