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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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Open book Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1850

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 The humor there can be no doubt about: it is the invariable favorable symptom. It is just the benefit I told you to expect from the Water Cure a driving off of the ill effect of poisonous medicines etc.Let me repeat my advice not to go away to Water Cure Establishment. Remain quiet at home: avoid fatigue & excitement: exercise to be sure moderately without fatiguing yourself persevere in the gentle Water Cure, not with Water so cold or long continued at once time as to be painful or fatiguing. "East blows etc." Avoid fatigue excitement, pain, uneasiness etc.You speak some of my coming home; which is extremely uncertain. I am now very busy preparing a "Report Plan Profile & Estimates of the Recent Survey to be published; One thing I am coming: it will be as soon as I can. I may however, if the Company do not succeed in raising funds to go on with the Road to Vermont next year, attend some to Laying Track finish up my business here and leave the Road this fall or Early Winter.I could another good place now I expect. if the company fail in Mid Winter, it might be difficult to obtain employment then. Joseph perhaps you do not exercise your hands arms, gentle exercise enough.

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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 194

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3149px × 3912px 70.53 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_194_014_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKE9

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