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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Eliab W. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1848, 1851

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Eliab W. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1848, 1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1848, 1851

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 Northfield, April 21st, 1848
Dear Brother Eliah
How happens it that I do not hear from you oftener? Now I remember it in a letter I received from you last winter, there was I suppose intended an answer to this question. However perhaps the letter itself was its own best refutation, for certainly he who can write such letters as that, ought to write far more of them than you do.
I had a letter from Anne a few days since, but it is now a good while since I have heard from either you or Joseph. I am thinking every day about you both, and am anxious to hear how you are getting on, and what business prospects are with you for the coming season. I suppose it has been rather dull times through the winter; and probably it will hardly be such a season for business as the last was, either in Bangor, or any where else. Business depression always follows war; and the results even of the Mexican War will undoubtedly have great effect, even in parts so remote from the principal scene of action. In a pecuniary point of view merely, war may be compared to a sort of National "Spree," perhaps borrowing money to go off gambling, or to a horse race; the depression which follows with peace is the going to work again to pay up the debts incurred. There - what think of that comparison? Seriously however, this war appears to me a dreadful thing, not so much in its immediate or pecuniary effects. those cannot materially affect a nation like U.S but in its moral & political effects upon this nation as well as

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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 189

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3129px × 3985px 71.38 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_189_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK29

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