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 Milo Me. May . 5. 1851Dear Mr. Friend & Brother Samuel As you are not actively and urgently employed in business now a days, it is perhaps allowable for your friends to trouble and vex you with various commissions etc. etc. Now, I that, is "we", want a few grafted Fruit Trees from Uncle Nathaniel Harlow's Nursery. Charles has been all over Sebec, Atkinsons etc. today, and finds only, that there is no such thing to be found in the region.Now, can you, should you like to, and will you, go to Uncle Nathaniel aforesaid, and procure, and superintend the forwarding of, a few such chice grafted Apple Trees? Perhaps it is not worth while to get very large ones. They may not do better.The Number to be obtained to depend upon the price. If they cost $.25 each, I do not know as you had better get more than 7 [[picture of 6 dots in a circle with a 7th in the middle) or 12 at at the outside. If only ninepence or a shilling, say 19 or two dozen. Not to exceed say $3.00 worth. If you will get and forward them, I will be personally responsible to you for the cost and your trouble etc. I.S. Metcalf {each Labeled I prefer Baldwins, but they say here, a variety is better, to get scions, to graft from in future. Hardy kinds, Winter fruit.[left-hand side] I suppose they can be sent up by a Team soon well packed.

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FIVX

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