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 Manchester R.R. Nov. 10. 1850Dear Sister Lucy I hope you have got pretty well by this time; and intend to come and see for myself pretty soon, perhaps before the week is out; perhaps not. You can not tell how frightened I was when I first heard that you were very sick. Samuel's letter did not reach me for a long time, perhaps till you were most well, or nicely getting well. It went first up to Bradford, then remailed from there to Oil Mill Village; and at last after a day or tow found its way down here. I kept thinking that perhaps that you were worse and I did not hear of it for so long; and troubling myself among other things because I had not written as soon as I came down here to let all the folks know where I was. And now, though, I have heard once or twice since then that you were getting better nicely, yet I am quite anxious to hear again how you get along. Mother it seems has gone home to Milo, and Almeda come down to stay with you. Anne, I believe I understood from the latest letter had gone to Milo, or was going. I really want to see her; and mean to before long. Your little one is dead. I suppose it was hard parting with it, even though you had hardly time to begin to love it��: yet it always seems to me it is hardly right to mourn in such a case, the death of an infant. In one sense, is not the soul of that child a fortunate one? It has received of God

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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 152

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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