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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 My Colt was one of excelled qualities and much promise; and I believe I should as lief have lost a hundred dollars in almost any other way. The people of Jonesboro are re-awaking upon the subject of Temperance just now. And well they may, for if nothing is done to prevent, with their present laws & prospective circumstances, they would while this Rail Road is building almost fall back into their old State. They are just forming a Division of the Sons of Temperance here, and making some effort to stop and save some of the young men who are so much in danger. I believe I have and have had some influence for good in the Temperance Cause here since I have been here. If my letters are not worth much, you must agree that they are written pretty often. So I will stop for now. Love to all Sincerely I.S. Metcalf

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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 175

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3037px × 3863px 67.17 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_175_008_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJIT

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