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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 We could settle down on a N.E. Farm--on N.H. hills or in Maine forests. We have the means to do it on a small scale, away from the larger Towns, but still with some N.E. priveliges for ourselves & ours, besides its bracing air. We could be healthy & happy; but humble, and always when noting the growth of prosperity of this mighty West, we should remember that we might have been a part of its growth & greatness. We might perhaps do better among the hills of Pennsylvania, equally healthy, more fertile, more chance for material prosperity, but less for moral & social advantages. Then Ohio, where we could be fully equal to N.E. in Moral & social privelege--fully equal to the land of Penn. in the chance for material prosperity, but without the bracing health giving air of either Penn. or New England. Then the fertile plains of Illinois; We might locate here as healthy probably as in Ohio, with still greater prospects of material prosperity--with the prospect almost sure of Wealth before us--after a few years of effort--here we might not live to enjoy it--and for social & other priviliges, apart from our own fireside--alas these would all be only in the brilliant promises of the future--What say you to it? Where shall we look for our home?

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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 177

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJPV

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