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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 Bills two months in advance of my Wages; and have now only about a necessary sum left in hand. Vt. & Mass. owe me at present some $150.00 When the Pay Day comes along I shall be in funds, and shall be happy to forward a portion to you ward.Money times are called easier; but still it is rather hard time with Vermont & Mass. Rail Road The running furniture and every thing connected with putting in operation a Rail Road of 60 or 70 miles length costs something. It does not take a great many ten thousand dollar Engines twenty or twenty five hundred dollar cars etc. etc. etc. to amount to something of a Bill, in addition to regular running Expenses and salaries & wages of several hundreds of men.The Authorities of this road too are not fond of Economy; or at least of Cheapness. Every thing must be most substantial. The road has cost more than almost any other: is said to be the most thoroughly built of any in the state; and that too with the Stock at 50 per cent. So too with the Road furniture. None but the "very first class" 22 1/2 ton Locomotives; Passenger Cars etc. all of the very handsomest fitted up like Aldermen's Drawing rooms. and so throughout to the least thing: All the best most substantial & permanent.Perhaps I better explain the singular characters on that line towards the top of this page. At that point in this writing, sundry Irish were arraigned before me on charge of stealing "Company Wood." and those are some of the remarks noted in process of the trial! Verdict "Guilty" Sentence "Wages stopped " 'Move'! "Acton" I never even heard of. I do not at present move in strictly literary circle! and dont "take the papers."

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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 3145px × 4052px 72.95 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_194_001_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FK93

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