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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 A large majority of the political papers, & of the politicians of this part of the world are clearly Free Soil. "M.V.S. & C.F.A."Now is the feeling with you, and yourabouts on this great question, the great question of the day, of the country.Am much obliged to you for the information in your last on subject of Heraldry &c.. Am extremely anxious to hear more. Do share with me whatever you have found. Let me know what you have; where you got it; its degree of Authenticity &c. &c. You have the Metcalf Coat of Arms!!!Do! Do! How? Where? When? &c. &c. &c. &c. &c. &c.I should prefer of course being under obligations to you than to anyone else. I will cooperate with you in what can be done in finding & tracing out facts & their connections, bearing on this subject. Do you know any thing about the Metcalfs of Maine? They are quite a large and honorable body; principally of Kennebec County. I had a College Acquaintance; graduated two years since, who, I suspect, has since married a Metcalf of Winthrop. I think of writing to him on that subject, though I do not know where he is now. I rather think he is just the right sort of mind to be interested in, & pry into such sort of things. Tell me what else to do. Did you mean Chelmsford in Old or New England.Conquiesco. Con is a Latin preposition, means together, or that like in composition usually about the same if any thing Quiesco is 1st Pr. Sing. pres. Ind. verb. "I rest" sometimes sleep. for particular & varied meaning, I have here no books, see any Latin Lexicon.I suppose I ought to administer unto you a rebuke in good set terms for that last paragraph or letter "inclined to be discontented: with it was not wrong to put one's self out of the world"!!! What do you mean? Seriously, brother; such feeling is base ingratitude to God, and also is foolishly destroying ones' own happiness.

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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 3122px × 3941px 70.44 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_193_010_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK7M

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