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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 You speak of your being seventy years old as if it were a reason why you should not travel to see your children. I suppose the Threescore and ten of scripture is mentioned not at all as a limit, but as an average, Now we have an idea that our Mother is altogether above an average. It will be generally conceded that you are really as smart, really no older than very many persons only 50 years old. The number of years a person has lived has little to do with their capability for action or usefulness. Some are as mature at fifteen as others at twenty five. Some are worn out at Thirty five; others are in their full usefulness at Eighty-five. A friend of mine here named Hinckley whose Mother is over Ninety years old. Two of her sons are wealthy lawyers & business men in Westfield N. York. The Old Lady travels back and forth from Hartford Conn. to Westfield N.Y. several times a year; not unfrequently alone. However I guess you did not mention the Three score and ten as really a reason. But if you decide to remain in Maine this year on account of Albina & Almeda, of course we have only to submit, and wait a while longer - of we must until Fall. You have heard Nettie & I speak of the Du Quoine Female Seminary, which Miss Paine, the Teacher who boarded with us, was trying so much to make a beginning for. She went East and spent a year or so in begging for it; bought a small

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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 164

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ9I

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