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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) and siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1854

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) and siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1854

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1839-1854

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 love Aunt Conant, she is so much like our Mother. She is too a very superior woman naturally; but shut up all her life, as if in a quart pot; confined to one little narrow spot & round of duties, thus and so performed; no opportunity to grow, although large hearted and large minded by nature. Uncle Joseph is an extremely perfect character; that is well balanced. He is like a Carrot, grown, say in a tin tube, just exactly filled it out, not very large, but perfectly round and true. Who shall say how much the growing up on that little narrow, rocky, ancestral homestead, "those few paternal acres," under the trees his father planted, and among the rock where his fathers lived & labored & died. have had to do in the forming such a character as is his. There must indeed have been strength & vigor & greatness even from the original stock; but the steady integrity, the honest sound judgment which have made him honored and respected among men, the trusted Referee, the just Arbitrator, and the popular Commissioner, whence came they else?But Uncle Jacob I do love. There does'nt seem to be any self about the man I want to get more acquainted with him.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 169

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3172px × 4015px 72.91 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FJCK

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