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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 Richmond Me. Dec. 15th 1845.Dear Mother I take pen and paper, just now, not really in order to write you a letter, for I hardly think I ought to, considering that I have written at least two sheets full, whether it will do to call them letters, is an other thing! to Milo since I have heard a single word from there; Also I have already written two or three letters tonight, and it is now half past ten oclock and I must finish, so as to send them all to Gardiner tomorrow morning, by Esquire Mitchell. What I want is this ~ that you and Lucy should write to me, which you must acknowledge is no more than fair, all things considered. Secondly that for Convenience sake you should direct letters for me to Gardiner, rather than to Richmond, and moreover to the care of P.S. Mitchell. Care of P.S. Mitchell Esq. Gardiner, MaineI am teaching School in Richmond, in which town there

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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 158

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3041px × 3801px 66.18 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_158_014_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJ3V

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