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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 make valuable friends. Perhaps I might like best, even at less wages & poorer prospects, a situation on one of of the Maine Rail Roads; say perhaps Bangor to Waterville: But then I have no influence to push me into a situation to rich or stationed relative, or particular friend, whose influence would help me, or to please whom somebody would take the pains t help me. Most folks now that amount to any thing, except some very few that used to be called geniuses, though the existence of any such animal has somewhat fallen in doubt if these latter times have somebody to help them. Comparatively few really help themselves, as our folds are obliged to, if indeed, they get any help at all. Our family is unfortunately not "connected" if you know what that means. It might be curious to trace away round, just how much ever such a man as say Mr. Field here owes to being connected, (and that through rather disreputable channels even of families of drunken paupers) with certain Congress man or Custom House Officers or somebody whose influence would affect something somewhere. This matter of influence is one of the prerequisites of wealth, situation; sometime perhaps talent and being generally less valued than money, is often turned over to "poor relations" & to whom it may be more valuable if possible than to that rich itself. There - I have written pretty near four pages of something. Come to read it over, I hardly think I had better try to add any thing to it. It is getting to be rather late to think of writing a letter on this sheet.

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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 161

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3229px × 3972px 73.43 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ78

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