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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 New Haven is very pleasant place, must be delightful in the summer season; beautiful buildings and abounding in trees, Colleges are a great affair about fourfold of poor Bowdoin and all so wealthy there too. Societies so wealthy, Hall etc. fitted up at an expense to be reckoned at thousands, I staid at New Haven one day & two nights. Attended a great meeting of D.K.E. then. After business transactions etc. etc. A great dinner at Midnight, get up on the greatest scale you ever saw, courses by the dozen all kinds of game and fish, delicacies of all sorts etc. Bill of fare half as long as a man;s arm.Toasts, speeches, and songs, jokes etc. in abundance,. No drinking of any thing ardent, true DKE!!! In the morning took the Cars again, Worcester at 4 1/2 P.M. Found Cousin Caleb B. Metcalf there. He has Mastership in one of the Public Schools there, Salary 1000 per year. Has bought him a fine house, I should think likely he has a fine sort of wife, a New Haven lady, daughter of a Professor there. Has no Children. Stopped with him over night. Went to Lyceum Lecture by Rev. Dr. Wayland, President of Brown University, R.F. Subject Patriotism. Got to Boston 9 or 10 AM next morning. Christmas day had to make the children. Christmas gifts.etc. They are going to Sutton Monday 28th. All very well. Found by C.B. Metcalf's direction Cousin Enoch Metcalf He has lately returned from St. Louis Missouri. has one child born to a Missourian: is temporarily engaged in a dry goods store at 339 Washington Street.

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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 159

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ5Y

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