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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 but you think wisely thoughyou ask if I have read certain books. Autobiography ofHugh Miller, I have given to Mitchell. "Hard Times" I willsend to you I think. You can read it, and decidewhether it is or not a libel upon all engineers and allpractical men. I will hardly determine it.We got a letter from Anne yesterday - the first sinceshe went East in June. She says the Dr De Witt hasbeen a good deal worried about Percie because theyhad no regular Physician to attend him: and nowis very much pleased that they have called on Dr McRuen?.I expect Eliab & Maria, are going to move intoa house he has rented farther down Centre Streetsame St. as Samuels' but nearer down town. Theywrote that Maria's Sister, whom they expected tolive with them, was quite sick.I have been down to old DuQuoin today to Church, withMr Rowley. My horses are up to Little Muddy more convenientfor me, going up to them on train. So I usedMr Smiths' horse & buggy. Mr Bird preached, very wellfor him. Text "straight is the way &c. Mr Ford grows fatterand fatter, is really very corpulent - fussy. He has receiveda call to go to Mr Vernon Jefferson Co. to settle; andanother to Naples on the Illinois River. I should thinkhe would be discouraged at DuQuion. Congregation small.The Bell was stolen a few weeks ago. taken down & fairly carriedoff, they know not whither! We went to Dr Walls to dinner;very pleasant; farewell visit of Mr Rowley whoexpects to leave this part of the state this week.We returned here between 2 & 3 P.M since then I havewritten a long letter to Sister Anne.

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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 176

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3293px × 4232px 79.78 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_176_021_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJL9

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