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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 I.S.M. GoffstownNov. 13 1849 Goffstown, N.H. Nov. 13. 1849.My Dear Mother I received your kind and excellent letter yesterday. You cannot imagine how much good your letter do me; if you did you would write oftener than you usually do lately. I am afraid from your letter that you are very lonesome since Joseph has gone away. Now I do not think you do just right about it.I suppose you shut yourself up there with Albina, and hardly see any one else once a week, living in a perfect monotony varied only by reading till your eyes ache. I do not know but it is wrong. Scripture says it is not good for man to be alone, and all experience proves conclusively that Society is necessary to mankind; necessary to the proper health, happiness, & development of mind & feeling. Moreover in your case it is not right to shut yourself up there alone: for the benefit which you might do to others: that you know is the true object of life: We have no right to live for ourselves alone. Just think now how much real good it would do. Mrs. Henry Sargent, and him too, for you to go over there and spend the day. They would feel better and be better and happier for a week. I really think they are good people

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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 3181px × 3926px 71.50 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ80

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