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Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife) Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1847-1866

Title Various, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), 1847-1866, 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 in his style, and to see him walking a little way off looks like him, but they do not look at all alike in the face he has a pleasant family consisting of his wife and her sister and two little daughters one six and the other four years old.Mrs. Leroy Mills fell on the door step at church three weeks since and broke her arm, she is recovering. Mrs. Wate (the old lady) hung herself some three months since it is thot she was insane at the time as she had been very low spirited for some time, she and James lived where Mr. Bunten used to. Mamie is getting to be quite a large girl but we still cal her "Little Mamie" she is unceasingly busy, is very fond of flowers, and stories but is not very zealous about learning to read, and is very devoted to her family of dolls the chief of whom are Louise and Mary Ann she is a great talker and I am some[left-hand side]Lizzie Fuller is married to a Mr. Greer of Goffstown a widower with 12 children, some of them married so she is a grandmother.

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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 118

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2227px × 3515px 44.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_118_005_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG4O

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