Newberry Library - 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 At Chicago the Thermometer was one day 24 below Zero, and another 19 below. Here & at Cleaveland, it was 17 below. I suppose you have seen some accounts of the storm in New York City & elsewhere a week ago tonight, Sat. Jan. 5th. But it was no so severe farther north. Did I mention to you something of the night we spent at Albany? last Monday night Jan. 7th. We stopped at the Delevan House, you remember it, the great Temperance House. It was very stormy, a great wind and snow. I got rooms for Mother & I connecting, and ordered a fire at once in Mother's. It did not seem to kindle--they were having much difficulty to start fires in many of the flues--In my room they got a good fire started, and so I changed & put mother in the smaller room I had designed for myself. Afterwards the fire in my room got to burning, and it seems with the flue stopped up, or it got stopped up with snow. Mother did not sleep well, and in the night, perhaps one o clock, Mother thinking her room too warm, opening the door through into mine. There was a great fire, the room very hot, and--I lay there stretched out on the floor--suffocated with the coal gas! What do you think of that? I was not entirely insensible, that is, I could move some, could get up, or try to, and fall down again. I could try to talk, though at first could not say any thing; and did not really know any thing until I waked the next morning. The wonder is that Mother was not frightened to

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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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