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

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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 Isaac sending money to J McKeenNorthfield, Map, Oct. 8th 1848JosephThis Letter, which is to be, is already dated. If I happen to think of it at the proper time, it shall also have a signature, equally correct.Dear Brother,Your letter of 21st-23rd inst. was by me received through hands of Rufus Holton & Joseph Stevens, as I was busily employed in "setting grades" &. and directing the "Laying Track" on the Vt. & Map. R.R. some seven or eight miles from here; which occupation is mine at present; and I am therefore obliged, being on the track early & late to board away from home, & only come up here Saturday nights. I like the business very well, and it is a very good chance for me. Cousin Joseph Stevens is one of my Assistants at present on the R.R. He and Parsons have dissolved Partnership. You know they were burnt out last Spring; the loss fell most heavily on Joseph. Parsons had much other property; but it was almost Joseph's all. He thought he had not capital money enough to continue the business profitably; and now wants some other; may get some situation, Depot, Freight, or Baggage, Master or something on the Rail Road. Is helping us for a few weeks now driving grade pegs. You enquire for the origin of a quotation in my last letter on the Source of Government. I have been trying to remember what the quotation was, but cannot, much more where it came from. Since then have happened to meet with Wm Goodell's Constitutionality of Am. Slavery. Did you ever see the Book? Am very much pleased with some things there, some that tally so exactly with certain ideas of my own which I have never before seen well expressed. "Common Law" So, He does not show much money too, to the celebrated "Social Compact."

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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 193

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3167px × 3912px 70.93 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_193_013_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK86

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