Newberry Library - Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 yet how full of Want & Misery, and Wretchedness, and poverty and suffering. - and worse than all, of Crime. how many thousand Gambling Saloons, gorgeous as palaces, but well called Hells. I do not know but a hundred thousand drinking places, from the filthiest of Irish Rum holes to the most splendid of gilded and marbled saloons, adorned with paintings and statues, every work of art and skill that can please the taste or tempt the eye. It is enough to set one thinking to walk in the streets here, here perhaps a reeling drunkard, spattered with mud, or with blood from contact with some curbstone or railing; there perhaps a party of miserable half naked emigrants, or of starving and shivering children, may be asleep upon some stone step or cellar grating; and then again crowds of beings beautiful as houris, decked with silks & jewels and brave attire, but whose "house is the way to hell, going down to the Chambers of death." ready to accost any one in the Street and if not replied to perhaps bursting out in horrible cussing and profanity. It is enough to make one disgusted with mere beauty for the rest of his life. I think I shall go to Albany tomorrow, probably to Utica, the next day, and perhaps to Canandaigua the day after, and so on. If I do not get pretty well stopped somewhere before, I may get to Westfield sometime the end of this week, and shall be very happy to find late letters from you there. Especially if Eliab has sent any thing to me since I left and I have not got it, or if he has any thing send, I wish you would write to Westfield this Week. Affectionately I.S.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 6 Folder 153

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2982px × 3932px 67.13 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_153_003_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FIVV

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