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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 But it is very doubtful. I ought not to depend upon it. So I am a candidate for a good School 25, to 30, dollars per Month, anywhere. if Down east. so I could go home, so much the better. Going right off so, as soon as this term closes, and not to be here at the beginning of the Next I am going to be entirely independent of the 'Mammon'. I can get some clothes, my necessary books etc. get whatever I must have in short, on tick, as others do, and pay when I come back, if it is not until next Febuary or March. Then, if I have my health, and succeed as well this winter as 'maybe be expected' I shall be able to get along comfortably until next August or September. When, if I could borrow a hundred dollars, I could probably graduate from Bowdoin College, A.B. etc.��!!! However, I have about made up my mind a whole year beforehand, not to perform at Commencement: which will save some considerable. The fact is, Nature and right, made me, my class being as it is, to take, as a scholar, the highest rank among them��: Mind, I say as a mere scholar, not in other things. Circumstances prevent me from taking that rank on College Rank books. Knowing this, I am too proud to go on the stage with any part which the Faculty of Bowd. Coll. according to their ranking system would assign to me. So I judge.

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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 159

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ4P

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