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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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  Du Quoin  Jan 14. 1857Elyria   DuQuoin  Jan 14  57  Wed.My Dearest    My Ettie, No letter from you. I am in a great strait to hear from you. Just think  I have away from Elyria one whole week now; Seven long days this morning, and do not even know how you got along the very day I left home. I do not know that the fire all went out and you and the Baby both took cold & are sick. I do not know Jennie went to the Doctor that morning, took medicine & has been sick ever since.  It is too bad of Uncle Sam's Mails to be so slow & irregular; 7 days  where a Passenger can cone in a day & a night. If I had heard from you in Season I should have gone North to Springfield & Dubuque last night, or even the night before.  As it is I wait. I shall have considerable to do here laying new Town lots &c. &c. but it is the ground is frozen too hard now for out of door work. So I have been 
Transcription Status Needs review
Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative. 
Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection
Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record
Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 179 
BibID 821787
Rights Status No Copyright - United States
Contributing Institution Newberry Library
Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.
IIIF Resource Type Canvas 
Size 2959px × 3614px     61.23 MB 
Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_179_001_001.tif 
Unique Identifier NL11FJR5 
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