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

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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 letter. And I expect he will soon happen to have his name and that of some fair one (perhaps of Miss Caverno or the lady with the crooked nose and bright eye.) exposed to the vulgar gaze. Ask him if he was ever one of a select party consisting of four at the house of Judah Hacket Coroner Dover Me. a hem!: ask him how many times he went to the door and back that night. But I must stop. I am getting personal.
And by the way I see your ''scursy" boy are rather smart. Nice fun that! to stave a chair. There are more than one "used" up here for kindling wood per day. It is inocence to kick down a fellows door here and "hook" his oil or his wood.
We have had quite a scrape here with the Yaggers as I expected. The Students were out on four successive nights armed with pistols & dirks. It is said that there were about [[15?]] pistols and as many dirks: and nearly all were provided with large club canes. It was even hinted that such articles as acid were about. Even some of the most religious had pistols. the Faculty and some of the town officers said that the students might defend the College yard. and quite a stood ready and even some had sworn to shoot the first man that came over the fense. I know that it would have been done. A student can not walk the street without being insulted.
I rec'd a paper to day containing a catalogue of the school. I see that you have had quite a respectable number; there are but comparatively few whom I know. Your next term will commence to-morrow I suppose. I think it will be the best thing that you can do to attend. I hope you will make up your mind to be here next vacation prepared to enter our class. Y will not need to study much harder than we have to. I will say something in regard to

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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 3241px × 5079px 94.23 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_205_002_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKP2

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