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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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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

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 Isaac & LucyMar. 3rd 1844Foxcroft Foxcroft Me Mar 11 18 3/4 Mrs. Anna M. Metcalf Care of Joseph Stevens Esq. Warwick, Mass.[right-hand side]Charles and Mr. Gilman are sticking to the house, have got clapboards planed & All clapboarded, all the floor boards planed, & most of the trimmings. Joseph is in a quandary whether to take the West half of Mrs. Lee's farm in front of Charles' or to buy Mr. Kleen's down river. (Mr. K. has bought Mr. Noverof's over in Atkinson where we hauled logs, moves this spring) or to go up to the iron works, or wherever.' I hardly know what to do myself this summer, at least if I do not study. I have some thought of going down to Enfield, and engaging in Treat's Carding Mill there. Treat invited me to. If I should conclude to go on with my studies, I ought to be engaged in some lucrative business for the little time I can spare this summer. I hardly think I shall go to College after all, I suppose if not, my time is not lost by any means{} We see by Isaac's description of Joe's quandary that a little learning is a dangerous thing and that words without knowledge darken counsel. I do not hardly know whether to go to sea this spring or not. It is very rarely we hear from Milo have you

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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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