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 Jonesboro, Union Co. Illinois Sabbath, Nov. 2. 1851Brother Samuel I find one page from you in the last letter from Bangor, whereat I am most obliged to you, especially as the page is a very good one.I wish you would write such, or double them, more frequently than you do. I am inclined to think that I do rather more than my part of the writing for most all of you. Though to be sure I got in the habit of writing long letters with nothing in them. I write often when there is nothing to write, and oftener than I should, because I want to hear from you, and am afraid you will not write, if I do not.You judge that I am in a good place, a place where there is room for a man to grow.This is very true. There is room for a man to grow wherever there is room and opportunity for him to labor. Not the mere physical labor to be sure, like that of the brute; but a labor, or varieties of labor, demanding such intellectual effort as his mental state is equal to. And this it is usually far easier finding, even in the sphere in which every one finds himself, than most are apt to imagine.There is here plenty of room to labor, and plenty of room to grow. I am then & therefore very well situated here. I am likely, if I stay here to do well - to grow. But there is one objection,

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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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