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Metcalf, Harlan Paul (son), to "Pater and Folks" (Isaac S. Metcalf), 1890-1891, 1897, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Title Metcalf, Harlan Paul (son), to "Pater and Folks" (Isaac S. Metcalf), 1890-1891, 1897, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 Sunday Eve. Smith went to Red Cliff, with Vaughn & I came back to Gilman to sing for Mr. Kettle. Our meeting was a great success. In the aftermeeting two strangers who were stopping over Sunday in town both spoke & made good testimonies & gave us words of encouragement & cheer. They were Judge Phillips of Des Moines, Iowa & a school teacher from Colo. Springs named Rowst or something like it. The Christians took hold well & it was a very effective meeting - Although the Phrenologist was still holding forth, this time to Men Only. We had over 50 all the benches would hold - Monday we took a long hard climb & tramp - We climbed right up in a crevasse of a precipice on the side of Gerard Mt. hundreds of ft. high. And rolled down big rocks & watched them tear their way along smashing everything in their way - The first 1000 ft we went up right beside a foaming cascade called Fall Creek - The scenery was beautiful. There is nothing like it in this world - When we were nearly to the top we came across a new mine called the Princess where they have only gone 70 ft. into the side of Mt. Gerard & are already taking out pay ore -- We took candles & went in & inspected it & got some specimens & then went on up to the top of the Mt. The view was wonderful. We could see several Snow-capped Mts. Were probably 12000 ft high ourselves - We wanted to go on about 5 miles further & have a snowball fight on Knotch Mt., but it was already 12 o'clock, so we just went over to

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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 138

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3307px × 4148px 78.53 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_138_002_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FIGX

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