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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

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I bought the volume on a certain occasion merely because it was the one I happened to see of the proper cost, appearance &c.
On the whole perhaps you & I should agree better upon N. P. Willis than upon Aesthetics in general, truth, beauty, utility, &c. or upon the real relative value of a book and a peck of corn
"An extremely malign disposition, when long denied any rent, will sometimes when circumstances are favorable thereto, produce a somewhat uncontrolable itch for scribbling which can be thoroughly relieved only by giving it free course." Pray what is the meaning, object, tendency, or point of all that? Or is it itself its own best illustration?
Words of counsel - for what young man? For [[?]] Senior? You had better take it all back
Question of Division & Settlement of Property at Milo. First, - how did you come to the idea of the sort of arrangement of thirds &c. a few years ago? You know I had & would have nothing at all to do with it then, & knew nothing at all of it. Whether that make it easier or worser now, I do not know. Was it like this. Charles W. Rich Cr. $1000,00 and compound interest for seventeen years. also Seventeen years labor at $400. per year and boarded, annuity at compound interest, after deducting

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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 192

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FK4G

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