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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf diary, 1852-1855

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Title Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf diary, 1852-1855

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1855

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 Tetst? - Authentic Chinese history in time of Confucious 1000 B.C.Present king of China - Taow-kwangBasilica - oldest Christian Church in Rome - founded by Constantine - +1800 years old -Ferdinand II. On the throne of Naples.Mosque of St Sophia at Constantinople - next to St Peter's at Rome, in splendor -Lady Lovelace Byron's daughter is paid to be authoress of Vestige of CreationNapoleon & Wellington both born 1769Our warmest sympathies are yours but we know by expense that in a trial like yours words cannot comfort except from the hands that stitched closer? than a trothA loving heavenly father - a sympathing savior and thoughts of a glorious Heaven where glorious spirits dwell alone? can cheer the heart that mourns a dear one "gone before" - A Sister in Heaven - safe at home! Is there not joy in the thought! You sorrow indeed that you have lost her sweet society on earth but she loves you now more orderly? unclear

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 5 Folder 119-122

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2054px × 3223px 37.91 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_121_001_116.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGXR

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