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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 have heard the whistling of "Coons" then at the West. I never head them except about here.I did not get any chance to go hunting. Perhaps it was hardly best, as I can get exercise enough in my business and should look to more quiet occupations for my relaxation, or recreation. You inquire when I shall be likely to emerge from these recesses. As long as my Party is in the Field, it is about impossible for me to get away even for half of a day. Any other one can be spared, but if I am absent all must stop. So you can see that I am really of some consequence in one place at least!However I think we begin to see through and it is very possible that our out of door work here may soon be finished up for the present.I am as yet though almost entirely ignorant of the plans of those who decide upon our advances. I do not know whether they will be able to proceed or not. But I must stop - it is half past ten o clock before I thought of it, and I am obliged to be an early riser, in these times.My love to all, especially Antoinette Sincerely I.S. Metcalf

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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 173

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3100px × 3978px 70.60 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_173_012_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJEX

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