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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1853-1857

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 I suppose that less than one half the hard work that you have done on that farm would have made you independently rich here & probably 20 years ago you could have got a good farm here for half what that cost youBut the query is whether it is not too late now to pull up stakes if you should want toIt is a fine country for Fruit of almost every kind did you notice when you were here what fine thrifty looking apple & cherry trees higher than the top of this high house that have not growing more than 10 or 12 years Pears Peaches quinces & grapes in abundanceThe Dr. says you had better sell your Farm & come out here & take or hire some land for one season & that would give you time to look round for a place to buy - I would wish you could have been here years ago if it would do any good --They are about Locating a ladies Seminary here in Elyria on the same without labor plan of Mount Holyoke they expect the cost to be about an hundred thousand dollars so manag'd that the cost to each pupil shall be no more than 60 dollars a year

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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 92

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FGIM

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