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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 Isaac Decatur Jan 29. 1856Dunbarton Feb 5. 1856 Decatur Jan 29. 1856My Dearest It is my Birthday today. Only to think of it, I am today 34, thirty four years old. It makes me feel almost an old man to think of it. How short the last twelve months seems; and in twelve more, short & fleeting as were those, I shall have reached, if I live till then, one half of Man's appointed three score years and ten. And this is far longer than I can expect my life to be prolonged. And yet I seem to myself to have but just begun to live, in fact not seen yet to be fairly started and ready to live a life which is really living. Till some three years and a half ago, "since we were Wed, Ettie", I hardly realized what it was to live. Well, shall the latter days be better than the former? Help me, Ettie, Mine own, that, at least, I may do my part better than I have done.

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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 178

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1999px × 3166px 36.25 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_178_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJQC

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