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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 suddenly to discharge all subordinates, and shut up shop for time. So I know not what to do for myself. It is decidedly unsafe for me to leave until the matter is decided somehow. If there should come a decision to put under contract at once and I away from here, it would be a Scrape of the worst sort, Or if the work is to be stopped for the summer I should not want to leave until then or till I could be ready for it. I talked with Mr. Ashley about it last night, and he thinks it would hardly do to leave now; but says we may all depend upon a long vacation in the Summer whether the work goes on at once or not. From the Nature of the country it has been decided not to keep the work progressing, or the Irish laborers at work through the hot season.However we are hoping to hear very soon some decision of the Directors as to what is to be done this Season. It may come any day. It is rather inconvenient to have the management & Direction of a Rail Road so far off. For a while this Winter New York has been nearly a month distant from Southern Illinois. The winter it seems has been very severe all over the country. I see in all the Newspapers accounts of extremely cold weather and great storms everywhere, not only in this country, but in Europe also.It seems you have your full share upon Dunbarton hill this Winter of both cold and storm.I think it would be quite a pleasure to me to see a real good snowdrift, one of your fifteen feet drifts for instance.

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FJI8

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