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

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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 You ask, Ettie, about Abby Wilson. I have not seen her since I came back here. Her Brother has come back from California, and I guess she stays at home now. I have been intending every since I got back to go over there sometime to see Abby but somehow there has always seemed to be something else to employ me, and I have never got over there; and now we are getting on with the Truck Laying I keep my horse at Little Muddy, so I have while here no chance to ride. The Parasol I have never heard any thing of. It was not left in the room when I went back there. Mrs Keyes never said any thing about it. I told G.M. Hinckley, if Abby ever was over there to offer her V or X worth of a dress and charge it to me. Do not know whether he has done it. Oh Ettie, Dearest Ettie, it makes me glad that you want to come out here again to be here with me. I know you do want to. But, as I wrote before, think it all over, and decide understandingly that you want to come out this Fall; and I will surely find some way to get you out here, as soon as it is prudent to do so. It would not be strange after the long drouth & extreme heat of the summer if the Fall should be a very sickly one. In fact it is now already I expect in many places. There is very much more sickness than there was last year. At Little Muddy you know it was quite healthy last year. Now most of the men have got away from there--but very many of those who are left there are complaining. But we will see how it becomes, & I will try to find a good place for you at Centralia perhaps; when the sickness abates. I am sorry about your Mother's anxiety & nervousness. What about Jenny? It would do your Mother good to travel about more, and see more company than she has done. She needs good society.

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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 3292px × 4229px 79.70 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_176_018_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJKW

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