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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 and you and I - Mr. S. says now that he shall not remove his relation to Brownville and I am inclin'd to think I had better not - Tis an unpleasant state of things - I don't know what your duty is about it - I should very much prefer to be united with a strictly Congregational Church rather than a Presbyterian - If you were permanently located in that place Du Quoin I should not like to advise you not to unite with that church as there is no other there indeed I don't feel competent to advise in the matter at all but I feel a little as if you had better do nothing about it just at presentI should be very glad to tell you something about Eliabs wife but I have seen so little of her that I do not feel enough acquaintance to say much about her - She is a very little body seems to be very pleasant, unassuming, affectionate, and very Ladylike - they have call'd here 3 times in the evening I have scarcely seen Eliab to speak with him besides since he got back - He is very busy nowadays in his shingle business - We had a letter from Lucy Searles a few days ago - Mr. Humphrey you know is gone from Foxcroft - Mr. Butterfield is

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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 2907px × 3860px 64.24 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_82_007_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG76

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