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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 who invest there first may realize hundred or thousand fold.I do not yet know how well to like Brattleboro', not being in the slightest degree acquainted with a single resident. It certainly contains many fine looking private residences, environed with shrubbery. The State Insane Hospital is I believe, considered the principal thing. The Water power used, in the Manufacturing is not the Conn. River, though I should think it might be but two or three brooks here emptying into the Conn.On the West side of the Conn. River both in Mass. & Vt. I should judge that the land rose very gradually swell after swell, or broken ridge after ridge, away back towards the Green Mts. On the East side, it is certainly abrupt enough down at Mt. Holyoke; at Northfield there is a level plain, one, two, or three miles wide, on the river, back of which rise rough steep hills. Above, in N.H. the hills some clear to the river most all the way from Kinsdale up by Chesterfield etc. It appears that all of our Warwick relatives, except indeed Aunt Esther, are Unitarians. All Uncle Joseph's folks are very stout ones, I judge. Especially Cousin Hannah. I had to exercise all my skill to avoid an "argufying the topic" with her. She is about as "tonguey" a woman as I know. Her husband, Albert E. Parsons, I like very much. Joseph A.S.'s wife is a remarkably amiable character. Her name was Jane Wells of Shelburne Mass

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FJCJ

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