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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1857

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 I suppose you take the New York Tribune, and get in that as well as elsewhere pretty full accounts of the Great Exhibition, or World's Fair at New York. I should have liked to be there at the opening; though, doubtless much less to be seen then than in the Fall sometime when the Exhibition will be much fuller. I expect I shall be unable to visit it at all. I am a good ways off; and too am where I cannot get away, confined by business. I may get a leave of absence sometime, but hardly expect to for a year & more. But I advise you, by al means, to go to New York sometime this Fall, and spend a few days in seeing. You will never regret the time or the expense I think; and neither are very great nowadays, if one be careful. The greatest danger is perhaps to health from change of diet &c, especially if in very warm weather. My advice is always to go to really respectable houses not the "Astor" or the "Metropolitan" or the "Irving"; but some really good respectable, and Temperance Public House if possible, even if the cost is a little more. It is the best policy in the end. And a few dollars is not worth the while of risk of inconvenience, health & comfort. Unless careful a stranger is pretty sure to see only the worst & most disagreeable side of all things and persons.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 198

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 NL11FKGY

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