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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 call'd a baby I was greatly amus'd to hear about his driving the Turkeys &c No doubt but he's his Fathers own ChildHow I do wish we could go to Dunbarton but the dear little Percie is so feeble that we have have no reason to expect he could bear the journey this fall - Lucy holds out wonderfully - but she looks as if she could not hold her head up or keep her eyes open - Percie is nervous & excitable it takes one of us all the time & sometime both to take care of him Lucy has been so perfectly devoted to him & Sam'l too that I have feard he would be taken away on that very account God requires of his children the whole heart but he is longsuffering & generous you are very good & kind on writing to me when you get such poor returns it is a favor & a great gratification to me to hear from you - any thing which concerns you is interesting for me to knowMy love & respects to your dear Parents I wish we could have the pleasure of seeing them

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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 2790px × 3646px 58.24 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_83_011_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG91

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