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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 from Samuel, saying that he and Percy would probably come out in April. We are all in very good health, and enjoying quite a degree of comfort.Ann is getting well rested from the fatigues of the Ladies Fair. Nettie is pretty smart, and quite 'housekeepry' (Have you read Mrs. Stowe's "Dred"?) Jennie has been most sick ever since the Fair. (She was not well then, and got too much fatigued, She was one of the Saleswomen at the Fair) but she has got better now. As for me I am getting ever so fat & hearty. Judge De Witt says I have changed wonderfully since I have been out here, and that I look as well now as he has ever seen me.Little Paul Wilder is fat & hearty as need be, as happy as a cricket, glad at nothing all day long, begins to try to talk, and to walk some; has six teeth & more coming. Our keeping house seems to work finely. All we seem to lack is to have you here with us, and to show us how to enjoy it. We are really quite comfortably situated.Christmas Day. The Judge & all his family were here with us, including Miss Woodbury. Nettie calls it her first experience in getting up "A Dinner", and it is supposed she made

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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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