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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 I ought to have $50,00 st least, at the beginning of the next term, and then should remain a good deal indebted upon my term bills; but I suppose I can get along and be satisfied with $25.00. by plunging a little deeper in debt; for which however I care not, for, if I have my health & God's blessing, I can earn it by Spring. I do not yet know what I shall do this fall, probably either a school here in Brunswick, or else go to Turner as last Fall; though it is altogether too bad to be out of College for $20,00 per month, a Senior too. I ought to have some better chance than either, and deserve it, according to what some others succeed in doing. Joseph wrote merely that Charles had been making some "ineffectual"efforts to sell the Blk Colt. I thought from Lucy's letter that he was somewhat likely to succeed in selling somehow. I must tell you of the scrape we got into last week. We Juniors have no Recitation Wed. P.M. Theme day. Last Wed. 15th, fifteen of us went down to the Bay to have a 'sail.' four miles. 2 oclock, intending to get back by 6. Got a sail boat of perhaps 10 or 12 Tons burthen. Wind south, beat against it out several miles, thinking we could come

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ4M

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