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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 invited little Miss Quimby to Athenaean Tea party Commencement Eve, as their friends are all Peucinians and she could not go, if I had not been very much engaged, and obliged to leave early; DKE anniversary same evening. friends from abroad and high time!By the way, when I got to my own room about 3 oclock, found a YV, Thos. Tash A.M. of Foxcroft Academy, just fairly ensconced in my bed! It has been excessively hot, very dusty besides. Everyone else is all tired out clear. However believe I feel all the better for the fatigue & sleeping on the floor two or three nights for excess of company, How tough I am!weigh 170 lbs. Far, hearty, and rugged.The thing about Topsham, it is a great place for Society, social parties, & every thing else. "take too much time & do no good," according to Joe., for one must go, or be Joe. I came over here yesterday P.M. First thing, an invitation to tea, somebody I never saw. I am entirely almost unacquainted here, but people seem determined it shall not be so long, I believe. I had a letter from Joseph the other day, just as usual, 'verry sound' Enclosed $3,00 to me.I received 'tother day' a letter or rather a sheet of paper regularly folded, not a word written there, and post marked Greenbush! containing a one dollar bill! What could it mean! The hand writing, be sure, looked a little like some of our folks, but not exactly, coming from Greenbush! Where is it? up Penobscot��? Money extremely convenient as I was all out at Commencement too. If you can decipher, or cannot, this mess of scribbled nonsense, I hope you will write immediately.I am very anxious to hear from home, how every thing is getting on. Charles and all his work and so forth. Lucy I suppose has got home by this time. Joseph wrote he was going home in Sept. I think

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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

Size 3056px × 3956px 69.21 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ5W

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