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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 the easiest times you please. I cannot very easily get away much to be sure; but my occupation is little but riding about to see that all things go on just right. By & by when the Track Laying get along to my own Division I shall have more work to do myself.Bow, is sort of "between hat & grass" here. I believe you did not write any thing about Almeda and the Children. You do not shut yourself up so as not even to see them do you! I want to hear about them. Almeda has recovered from her lameness, has she not?I have not heard from Sister Anne for a long time.Do your spectacles fit your Eyes exactly?Ought you not to get the glasses changed occasionally?I wish I could come home just to show you how fat I am; and my whiskers! Well, I guess I have written nonsense enough for one time. Do write to me Affectionately I.S.

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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 162

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3180px × 3948px 71.87 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_162_015_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJ8C

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