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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 Bowdoin College, Apr. 17th, 47.
Dear Metcalf,
I have before me a letter which I received from you just before I left Thomaston, but whether I then answered it I do not now remember. If I did, why when you get this you will owe me one - otherwise you will not.
Be that as it may, I shall go ahead, as I have seated myself for the purpose of scribbling you a letter. Well then, what did you mean, Sir, when in a letter to my worthy chum some weeks since, you said 'that you should like to have a letter from Case, if he could keep steady long enough to write one?' Did you mean to hint even, that I am ever, on any occasion, under any circumstances, unsteady? If so, Sir, please have the goodness to retract, or meet me as a gentleman of honor to support your base accusations, at the pistol's muzzle! These, Sir, are your only alternatives - Retract, fight, or be ported as a coward and a calumniator!! My wrath will not permit me to fill this page, so turn over -

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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 3053px × 3884px 67.89 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_206_020_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKSC

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