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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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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

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 [Diagram of a house floor plan with three front steps leading to a porch, with door to inside stairs on right that lead down?, Parlor with 2 windows and measures15 X 16 on left, continuing on ground floor, Spicey? and Closet off Parlor in the Bedroom 15 X 17 with 3 windows and a porch off the bedroom viewed from one of the windows but no inside access. Beside the Bed Room is a Sitting Room, 14 X 15 with 3 windows. The Sitting Room enters through a door to the Parlor and has a small door to the bedroom and a door to the Dining Room behind it. There are stairs to the immediate left of the door to the Dining Room. The Dining Room measures��!5 X 15 and has a porch to the right of it with three steps leading from the outside. The Dining Room has two windows, one on the right adjacent to the stairs and one on the far left. The Dining Room is separated by a door to the left to an area with a Bathroom measuring 6 X 9 with a Bath and Water Closet and window and it leads by a door to a Closet 4 X 9 which is accessible by a door to the Bedroom. The Closet has a window and a Wardrobe. The Dining Room and Kitchen sit in the middle of the house at the back of it. The Kitchen (which has no measurements mentioned but appears in the diagram to be about 3/4 the size of the Dining Room, has 2 Windows, a Door to the outside on the right, a Pantry, a Sink and Pump, and a small Closet?. The Pantry also has a window and a door leading to the Dining Room near its far left window.][Front Porch faces] Sidewalk and Middle Avenue Common[top of page and left side of building with Bedroom] Alley? Avenue?[right of building with Sitting Room windows looking out to] Garden etc.That will give you perhaps some idea of it. The three West windows, towards the Avenue go down to the floor. The Parlor we do not use or furnish at all. On the Sitting Room, we have the carpet Samuel sent, and it looks finely, also Twenty dollar damask or trockatelle Curtains with gilt cornice & fittings. Instead of a sofa, we have got a pair of handsome divans, which with Melodeon, Whatnot Quartet, & chairs furnish it tolerably. The bed room is the best room in the house, and we have got it comfortably furnished with damask curtains, large Mirror & Black Walnut Bedstead Bureau Commode etc.In one corner of the BedRoom is a Marble top & bowl Washstand a fixture of the house, with both hot & cold water by a silver mounted fasset? head. And through a closet is a very convenient Bath Room with both hot and cold water at all times by simply turning a stop cock.The rain water runs into a large tank in the back Chamber, before filling the large underground Cistern.

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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 NL11FJ9C

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