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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 can be with us again - the gardenwill need somebody ere long ifthis weather continues - ButI want you to stay till you arethrough so you need not godirectly back.Your prospects seem good regardingthe Du Quoin property - It is pleasantto have enough for ourselves andsome to give away too. But lifeseems so frail a thing to me. EvenI could not realize that our dearlittle ones could die, but now when I look at little Wilder, I feel that he isonly lent. I feel that he may die - Wemay have other little ones to love, butall may die - Still I know we oughtto prepare to live, as well as try to beready for death - Sad thoughts will come to me.How many acres was your last purchase& was it coal land, or only near the coal.If I remember, that farm was higher landthan most about it.

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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 179

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1946px × 3180px 35.45 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_179_010_007.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJSA

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