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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 I thank you my Dear Children for the many expressions of love & kindness I have reciev'd from you. Your good letter frequently occation tears - tears of mist & undefinable emotion cheifly I trust of gratitude to God for his transcendent goodness to me in giving me so much of peace & comfort. And such treasures in my children - I wrote you I believe how I went home & stay'd one day i.e. went up Thursday & came back Saturday. it was very stormy Friday & I hardly got rested before I return;d - But you dont know how good Charles is & Albina too they seem to want to do every thing for my comfort - Self denying and humble they are themselves for the sake of others But Charles look'd very thin & pale when I was there I never saw him so worn down. He attended singing school all the first of the winter & of course went to bed very late - - had a bad cold & cough a long time, must be up frequently with the children so he gets not enough sleep. The rum party rule the town this year too & that vexes him I suppose. Taxes are very high 4 or 4 1/2 per cent __ There is so much lumbering &c. that it is next to impossible to hire a man that is good for any thing __ How different he and Sam'l are -(how necessary it is to take into consideration the different circumstances in which people are plac'd in ordertop of page upside down It seems probable now that Sam'l will clear by his years work [Mill, & woods a full apperations] full $4000, perhaps more tho' it cannot be ascertained exactly till his Lumber is all sold he sold $1700 worth a few days ago tho' it is not got down yet so he dont know what it will cost him

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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 82

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3410px × 4282px 83.59 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_82_006_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG74

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