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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

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Open book Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence (mostly Bowdoin college friends), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1849

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1849

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 Bowd. Coll. Apl. 1st 1847.
Brother Metcalf,
How shall I begin after just reminding you of the commencement of your letter, or rather of that beautiful exordium, in which you didn't know whether you were invited to write me or not!! I say how shall I begin to give you a thousandth part of the news you ask? - But first let me just say I wonder not at your thinking the time long since you left, Time moves slowly from many causes. Since you left, it has moved so here and still continues thus to move. One reason for this may be that dim, stern shade of Butler, which three times a week stalks triumphant through Old Bowdoin's Halls. Then only are seen "sights of woe" and heard wild shrieks of heartrending anguish. But for all this who that has ever entered these "Classic halls, can forget them till his latest hour,' - and even after that we know not but that numary may survive the shock of death and fondly

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 206

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3138px × 3904px 70.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_206_018_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKS5

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