Newberry Library - Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

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Open book Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Friends' correspondence: Watson, Robert (includes letter about Sioux uprising), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1855, 1862-1863

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1855, 1862-1863

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 R. Watson
Cottage Grove
Aug 3 '62
Cottage Grove Min. Aug 3 / 1862
Dear Sir
I hope you will excuse the liberty I take in writing to you on so slight an aquaintance as ours. My reasons for doing so at present is to obtain some information about farms and farming in the vicinity of Elyria
I have for some time been desirous of renting my farm here & spending a year in Ohio, and to enable me to do so I thought of renting a small farm or a dwelling house with a few acres of ground in the vicinity of Cleveland or Elyria. And if my wife & I both liked the change I might conclude to buy a place there and remain permanently
For various reasons my wife has been opposed to the move, but if we went preferred to go to vicinity of Elyria as she was aquainted with yourself mother & sister.
Since the troubles with the Sioux commenced, the accounts of which you have probably learnt from the public p[[?]]ts, she is anxious to go to Ohio or somewhere else further away than this from the Indians.
I should like to know on what terms farms

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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 211

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3041px × 3912px 68.11 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_211_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKWN

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