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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 Dunbarton, Merrimack Co. N. H.
Tuesday, Sept. 23d 1856
Dear Bro' Charles
I suppose you would like to hear how we get along here in this house of sickness.
I wrote you a week ago, telling of Little Willie's death, and how the rest were sick.
Nettie is still sick abed; though the Doctor pronounces her "getting well." She has got about over the Dysentery, and begins to gain strength in fact has set up more than half an hour this morning. We hope she will now gain health and strength very fast.
Little Wilder is very well.
Father & Mother Putnam are both still very sick, though we hope now improving. But in their feeble

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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 199

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2064px × 3224px 38.11 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_199_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKI7

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