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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 like her mother. No if he should be sick & die I should probably not hear anything about it for they will not write Oh! how can you live in so much dust and hot weather & you have to ride a good deal too I suppose How glad I shall be when you get releas'd from your bondage in Egypt. Anna insists that I shall go to Elyria & spend the winter possibly I may if any body happens to be going to take care of me but I am to old to attempt to go alone anywhere I dont know but she would have compel'd me to go with her if it had not been that Maria so soon expecting. her wish is that I should first become acquainted by having a set of false teeth. It certainly is a great happiness to me to do anything for the gratification of my children but that would be a little more thanI could very willingly come up to I had a letter from Nettie last week I must write to her soon. I am afraid Charles is too anxious about getting money. Money is useful somehow but cannot confer happiness. O do consider & try to make C. consider how short the time is and Eternity Eternity how vastwrite to your Mother

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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 83

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2804px × 3638px 58.41 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FG8M

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