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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Charles W. Rich (half-brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1857

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1857

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 in any village, or any where. I guess there is not a finer salesroom at any rate in Dover Village. South of that old Boarding house is now "J. Vancil's 'Du Quoin House." It is painted cream has two wings, one of them longer than the old part; and is quite a house; two or three lots neatly fenced in for yard & garden. Its stables &c. are twenty rods south. Vancil the Landlord is the same old chap you remember lived in the timber towards old Dick Taylor's. Old Vancil is now quite a Villager, a speculator in lots &c. The other Hotel - the "White House" is about ten rods east with half a dozen shops &c. between. The best Dwelling houses are on the east side of Town, where too Dr Wall & Benj. Sprague are going to build this spring. You know where Mr Keyes house is - in the broken ground falling off into the hollow north of the old Atkin's Farm house. G. S. Smith's Ed. Smith's & others are just south of that. John A Sprague is just north of Mr Keyes'. But Mr Keyes has just sold his house - House & the land with it, his half of the 40 acres on the north east of ours which we divided for $6.000.00 to a coal operator. Some of the best houses to be built this spring are on the extreme north; Horace Smith's for one. We reserved a tier of lots next north of the Public Square for Public purposes. The school house looks rather solitary there alone now. But the prospect now is that there will be four

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 199

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_199_009_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKIE

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