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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 Office of the Du Quoin Coal Mining & Mfg. Co.
Du Quoin, Ills. Dec. 7 1863
Dearest Nettie
I most always write to you when I am here on the Sabbath Day, whether I do other times or not. Yesterday I did not happen to have any pen & ink. But, Oh how I did want a letter from you. I really expected one Saturday but it did not come.
Yesterday was Episcopalian day. The Presbyterians have preaching but half the time, and the other half an Episcopalian Clergyman from Jonesboro, Mr Brittain, holds forth. You remember perhaps the three curates in "Shirley," I think this must be one of them, though I am not quite certain. It seemed almost ridiculous to see the little pompous, rather scanty brained Irishman come in there; (no vestry or dressing room you know) and dress himself in his white robes right before the audience, and then go through with all the minutia of the service, so almost absurdly, trying to intone in the fashionable high church style. Well it was almost laughable, and quite tiresome - to me at least.

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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 184

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJXQ

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