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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 that night at Centralia, or all the next day; But for? today am well as ever again. I will be careful the next time about exposing myself too much to the SunShine. Your last letter of Aug. 10th I got at the Mt Hawking P.O. after I left here last Monday night; and it made me glad all the way all the week. It is too bad be be kept so far away, and makes me not a little sad and grieved sometimes--but then, as Charles says, it is a good thing to have a wife, even if one cannot be with here--Yes especially if one has as good a wife as my Ettie! It is so sickly there in New Hampshire, and everywhere there among the hills, that I am really afraid to have my family remain there! If I could only have them out here on these healthy prairies! Really it does seem that it must be very sickly there, and it is certainly very healthy here about Ducoign so far this Season--though throughout the country it is called a very sickly season. It has been really sickly in some places. Oh I do so want to see Mayo! His Daguerrotype is a great comfort to me. I am so much obliged to you for it. Is Mayo really afraid of grown persons?--you say he is pleased with children but will not speak to grown persons. Does he cry when they speak to him? How much does he weigh? So I supposed that Father & Mother have not yet got home if they were to be gone three weeks. Or were they to get home yesterday. I hope you did not get lonesome & homesick. But you will write to me all about it. I hope they have a very pleasant visit--and it does them much good. Is it curious--I have here I went out to water my horses, and coming back couldn't imagine what was curious. Finally by tracing over the whole long train of thought I find it was that I have

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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 176

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3307px × 4259px 80.63 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_176_015_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJKL

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