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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 very diligent withal - at least in the use of fans. Glad to hear of your increased healthfullness. Be careful and not get tired & sick going to Dunbarton. Shall you take May with you to Dunbarton, or leave her at Yarmouth? I really do not know what to do about going East. I hardly see how I can go away and leave these young ones. Suppose they should be sick any of them. Relatives & friends are never to be trusted with children, are they? Even Anna, Little John went down there last week an hour or two, and they gave him cake or gingerbread or something, almost made him sick. If I do go I doubt if I get there the 28th, more likely to start the 30th. But I really do not yet see hardly how to conclude to go at all. What to you really think about it? - Is this the end of the Sheet? Surely 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 187

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1998px × 3106px 35.55 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_187_023_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK0U

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