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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1850

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 Turner, Nov. 17th, 1845.
Dear Brother
I received your last letter, dated at Milo, the first of this month, and intended to have answered it before, but have delayed it.
I was glad to hear that you had been at Milo, though sorry that your visit was occasioned by ill health The fact is, as I wrote to you last summer, you do not take exercise enough in the open air; you must try to do better in that respect, I think: I know how it is exactly, you dont feel like it, and, the less exercise you take, the less you feel inclined to take.
But let me advise you to make an effort to take some vigorous exercise, in the open air, even if you don't like it. It is really necessary for your health, more necessary for you, than it is for many others around you, those city chaps perhaps who have been brought up in indolence, or a large proportion of country chaps, lazy fellows, sent into the store, cause they would not work &c. You now have long been habituated to labor, constant & vigorous labor, which habit, besides its naturalness, requires it. Such changes of habits, of whole constitutions or systems of existence are not to be made with impunity.
I will send you that money, if I can get the Bills changed, as I have it now by me, and can get along very comfortably, I think, till spring. What I shall do for money, next June, & August, I yet know not.

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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 191

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3095px × 3822px 67.72 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_191_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK43

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