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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 Haying will soon be over and you will return to your studies. I do not expect to enjoy the pleasure of attending school this fall, but shall endeavor to visit Foxcroft, sometime during the fall, and hope to see you there. Politics do not excite a very great interest in these parts. I think the contest will not be so great as it was in -40. There is, however, some interest felt. We expect a meeting of the friends of Clay here sometime near the last of this month. The Hon George Evans is expected to address the meeting on that occasion. I am opposed to slavery in any form, but as I beleive without doubt that Clay or Polk will be our next president, and as I like the principles of Clay much better than those of Polk, I prefer him. If Polk should be elected Texas would, doubless, be immediately annexed which would add a large slave holding territory to the union This I think would give the slave holders a majority, and would be more injurious to the welfare of the slaves than having Henry Clay for president.
On the whole I think I shall go for Clay
Please write again soon
Respectfully Yours
E H Great
I S Metcalf

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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 205

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3115px × 3897px 69.50 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_205_004_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKPA

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