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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1857

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 have about concluded not to go East this spring. I will be very difficult for me to get away at all. The journey is a long and difficult one at this season. And moreover the expense is not a little. If I do not go this spring, I shall attempt to have a longer time at my command in the summer. I mean to be away quite a long time this summer.
Did I write to you about my horse? I bought a horse awhile ago or a colt which I think will make a fine horse, and which I like very much. 'John' is not yet three years old, very large, finely formed, high spirited, courageous, but kind & gentle as you please. He has cost me $55.00, and I could have sold him for 70. at least since I got him. As long as I stay he here he will be earning money for me all the time, and if nothing ill happens to injure him I may sell him for 100, some day. I have become very fond of riding hose back. It is almost the only way of riding here. I ride a great deal of the time and like it very much. I have got so that I am entirely at home in a good saddle, and it does not tire me in the least even to ride all the time. I should enjoy nothing better than to ride horseback across the country from here to Maine if I had only time for it. It would be quite a ride would it not? If I had another horse like my John, riding first one then the other, making an easy journey and then selling the pair at the East for three or four hundred dollars! how would it do?
I am quite pleasantly situated here now, or shall be this summer, I think. I have charge of 30 miles of Road from Jonesboro south. There is a good deal of heavy work on it, enough to keep me riding pretty busily upon it, I expect.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 198

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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