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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1835-1859

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 Mother Bangor 1835 When I started there was two other in the stage so that I set on the front seat which soon made me sick when we got to nr Hoxies I got onto the back seat but I was sick all the fore-noon and vomited some - could eat nothing at. It was drifted bad and we had to get out and help the stage along! sometimes went out into the field 3 times to get along and once while going out of the road one runner got onto the bank and the other into the gutter the sleight upset with me in it but there was so much snow that it fell very easy. I got out and we lifted it up, and went on. I was very cold my boots were so damp and I had to keep my head out of the window all the time an I should be sick. I got to Mrs. Parkers at about 5 o clock cold enough! Mrs. P. keeps a girl and 4 boarders besides Grandmarm as they all call her they keep 3 wood fires (some times 4) besides the boarders Mr. Blood and wife Mr. Stackpole and wife both of whom find their own fuel which is coal They keep no cow Mr. Blood has a home but he takes care of it himself. I go to a public bright school Mr. Pomeroy and Mrs. P. both thought that I had better if I could. (for It is a select school no one can go to it without they know so much and a committee examines them There was two other examined at the same time that I was one passed and the other did not. There is about 30 scholars the Masters name is Worcester. The school is in an large brick building with a steeple between Mr. Pomeroys house and Meeting hose there are 2 other schools in it the common school and a school for young men apprentices Albert Stubb goes to it I have bought a Goulds Latin Grammar for which I gave .92 cents & Mr. Worcester says that I better look over Smiths Arithmetic some what and then study Algebra. I saw and split the wood and have to come down to the stores and market and so on - have to be pretty bust. I have been all round every where most and I cannot get that Jacket cut some said that it could not be done without paper others said that they would not that it would tear and that they could not chalk cannot you make it from that coarse one for this one will not last till Spring I fear Teusday they out another stove into the Schoolroom for it is very large and one would not keep It warm it is in the 2 story and there is 2 other schools in as much room under it. Lydia? Grant Mrs. P. girl is page torn And she is a green brittle rest of page scorched? browned? torn

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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 154

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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