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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 for a common school, though the 'little ones' are still a trial and there is opportunity sufficient to exercise patience. The Committee have not yet visited my school.I expect to 'have' a writing school in operation pretty soon but it will be a small one, and the Compensation smaller. I have been up Capt. Mower's one evening. Mrs. Mower's says that "Charles, Rich is too particular ever to get married!" Mr. Mower is a fine man I think, a liberty man, & an awful talker.He has fine family of children. Six of them attend my school and form a very good part of it, in wits as well as numbers.Horace Mower has had the reputation of being a very bad fellow, but I am very far from anticipating any trouble from him. I board in a very pleasant family, Mr. Dudleys, about a third of a mile from the school - house. I shall have to pay 9/ for board perhaps. 10/6 without washing. 10/6 is the usual price here. The milliner all pay it, I hardly see why it is so high. The Brownville teams pass here every day, going to the Ironworks, and into the woods; the West branch teams go through Brownville. I don't often have a chance to see them, but one at Milo Mills, might send 12 dozen times per day. If you send - Mr Dudleys, Ed House,1/2 mile above Buchanan's. I am really anxious to hear from home, How does Almeda get along, and does she feel reconciled? How does Joseph get along with his school - pleasantly? Let him write to me about it, & everything else. do him good. How does Charles get along with the house? What became of the old bridge? Will all those oxen & horses eat him out of house & home, this winter? What is Eliab doing? Tell him to (improve his precious time.) not that

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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 157

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3137px × 3912px 70.26 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FIY3

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