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

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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 Columbus, where, for the first time for nearly a year I heard the sound of the Sabbath. Only think of that. You can hardly imagine how good it sounded this morning. The last Sabbath that I heard a church bell was I think last June at Springfield Ill. The week before at Chicago, the week before that at Westfield, New York.Rev. Mr. Brownlow the Presbyterian minister whom I heard preach this forenoon, is a very fine portly looking gentleman, would look very well for a City D.D. almost any where. He preached very well too, he is an Eastern Man, though he he enlarged upon the rich "bottom" lands about Sodom, which Lot was so well pleased with. His text was the separation of Abraham & Lot, and Lot's choice of the Plains of Jordan. By the way, though, I thought, considering the reputation Columbus now has that he ought to have been a little more explicit in his advice to his people; if they found themselves already located in Sodom. Columbus has established the character of a "hard place", I believe. There was a most brutal unprovoked murder here not long since by a gang of miscreants which have long harbored here. I stopped a day or so at the Great Sulphur Springs in Martin Co. They are called the largest Mineral Springs in the world, the streams from them is almost a Mill Stream. Their Medicinal qualities are highly recommended, and they have several hundred visitors every summer.I really think that the Sulphur water I frank while there did me good! gave me appetite etc.

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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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