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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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 I do not know as I ever felt better than on the boat coming down the Ohio. It was very warn you know, but it was extremely comfortable to sit in the shade, in the fresh South wind, thinly clothed dreamily feasting the eyes all day long. It seems as if the beauty of the atmosphere & scenery was drank in at every pore as well as by the eyes. But perhaps the excessive laziness joined with the extreme high feeding was not permanently wholesome for me. Saturday night & Sunday there was an extreme change of weather, from very warm to very cold, which last it has been since till within a day or two. I had to stop at that most miserable Cairo over the Sabbath, and to start at 4 oclock that damp chilly Monday Morning; when I found myself with a very bad cold, whether the effect

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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 182

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1767px × 2797px 28.32 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_182_013_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJV3

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