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 Dear Lucy Mother I believe has written of all our fears and over rejoicing , and also something of our condition to you You must be very careful, and not suffer excitement and company and a new place, and circumstances to elevate and trouble you if you ever want to get well again.I have a commission for you, if you will to it. You know Miss Lizzie Doe is going away; she has been very kind to our folks, to Joseph, and I have those beautiful slippers she wroughtI want to make her a present of some nice book or some things of she will accept it. I have had no chance to see her. Will you see to it is able and get Eliab or Samuel to procure the thing, and you present it unto her in due and agreeable manner/ In cost or amount any where to two or three dollars worth. Two. That Mrs. Knight's Memoir of Hannah More, if she has not it already, would be perhaps very appropriate, and decent.Your task would be best of you were able to go out. As it is Eliab can do as well. If Eliab up to your house frequently, and daily, when he has time and opportunity:Letters to me, come directed to Bangor. I am a little afraid they may lie there, as they did once before, although direct to Eliab's Box. Carelessness of Clerks. I wish Eliab would see to it somehow. Letters may come there of much importance to me to see at once.bottom of page possibly continued from another page of good in the "country they are going to"

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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 3070px × 3984px 70.02 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_153_001_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FIW2

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