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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 Ohio River Sept 7 1860 Friday Sept 7 1860 New Orleans. Vicksburg & Berlin? Steamer Mary E. Keene U.S. Between, Ind. & Kent'yMy Dearest Tolerably Saturated with watching La Belle Riviere & its verdant & varying banks. I believe I must write you this Afternoon. If the writing is hardly as steady as usual you may ascribe it either to the vibrations of a fast high pressure Steamboat or to the effect of its dissipations. I wrote you a bit from Cinn. and intended to write again yesterday from Louisville, but did not get a chance. I left Cinn. at Noon Wed. on the Mail Boat Moses McLellan; reached Louisville before morning. Spent the day on

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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 182

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2003px × 3182px 36.51 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_182_010_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJUS

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