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

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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 Mother for her kind advice and shall be very grateful if she will always favor me in the same way. It will give me the benefit of having two Mothers. You wrote of the unpleasant showery weather, and enquired whether we always found Shelter. I will tell you how we do when it rains when we are away in the woods or fields, at a distance from houses. - We take off our coats to wrap over and protect the Instruments, that is, if it rains so hard that handkerchiefs etc. do not shield them enough, and then stand ourselves and receive the full benefit of the shower! Some would think this very bad, and perhaps expect colds etc. as a result; but you know I am a "Cold Water Man", and think a good Wetting is a Shower, or by wading a Stream or some pond, as we do occasionally, is a benefit. That which you reserved to the last in your letter is indeed rejoicing. How happy such a state of mind in your dear brother must make your family circle. The rejoicing - such a family circle in such circumstance is like the rejoicing in heaven. May Henry live long to prove life a gain to himself. and a gain to friends, and to the world.But it is getting quite late and I must stop - with my love to all the family, Yourself & Henry in particular. Yours truly 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 3189px × 4037px 73.70 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_173_009_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJDN

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