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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 you know I talked of going East again in August perhaps. There is little prospect now that it will be possible for me to do so. The rivers you know have been so low that there was no getting up Iron to lay on this Division. So we have laid no Track since March; obliged to wait till the track is laid through the 1st Div. which will be about July 15. Then it will take two or three weeks to put on the Big Muddy Bridge which must be hurried; and then the Track laying on this Division. It will probably be impossible for me to get away again at all this Summer. Oh dear! I want to see my Ettie; and my little Baby Mayo. But I know that you, with the help of a kind Providence, will take good care of them. Do write to me particularly everything. I know you think of me, as I do of you, almost constantly. It is quite an employment of mine there nights when it is too warm to sleep to lie and think of Ettie & Mayo.I hardly know where to send this Letter. I expected to get one from you yesterday get it quickest. Anne was to reach Bangor July 6th. You would wait till then and then you would not be likely to start without waiting awhile to enjoy her visit. I guess you will stay till she goes back; and they will go with you. I guess this letter will find you at Bangor. If you are not I will write to Eliab to forward it to New Hampshire.We expect to have the DuQuoin Post Office moved out here to the Station in a few weeks.My health is very good, even the hot weather though it make me so lazy - does'nt hurt me.Write me all about your heath Sincerely Isaac

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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 3255px × 4229px 78.80 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_176_007_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJJT

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