Newberry Library - Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also from Joseph M. Metcalf and Anna M.S.R. Metcalf; also to Samuel Fu..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 Jonesboro, Union Co. Illinois Sabbath. Nov. 9. 1851.Dear Sister Letters reached me on the 5 inst from Bangor and Milo. being one from you. Samuel & Eliab of Oct. 1. One from you of Oct. 4, and one from Mother and Eliab at Milo, Oct. 6-10 reaching here at once via Mt Hawkin's Post Office, Perry Co. You had all just heard of my Ague, sickness etc. and all troubled and advising me to leave here at once. Which would be no sort of use, the advice being a few months to late. I may just as well stay here this winter. It is a healthy country enough in the Winter Season. And it is perhaps better to leave in the Spring than in the Fall.Your idea of the ague is perhaps tolerally correct.When a chill comes on, one not accustomed or watching for it might not notice, certain symptoms of blue lips purple nails & cold fingers, till he finds himself suddenly shaking. It is rather queer, than very bad, perhaps in a very hot day, or sitting by a big fire, all wrapped up in clothes, to be shivering with cold for an hour or two, and without really feeling very cold either. Soon the patient commenced drinking a pailful or at least a pitcher full of water. and before long the cold & shivering gradually, almost imperceptibly, passes into a burning fever all over, usually accompanied by more or less of head ache & back ache.

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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 153

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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