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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 Woolwich April 24th/46
Friend Metcalf:
I have just received your letter and take this early opportunity to answer the same, as I received one from the "rebel Wheeler" also.
I always have a strong sympathy for the downtrodden and oppressed, and you can better imagine than I can describe my heartfelt sympathy for the vanquished Faculty of the time honored Bowdoin College.
Wheeler wrote that he & Boody had to take the blunt of the battle: I presume they were able to bear it and their knees did not shake quite as bad as Belshazzars. I hope you will leave as much as a greece spot of the Faculty, for one of them owes me a little, and if you annihilate them I fear it will be a bad go for me. Do spare Prof Packard, and for the sake of an old friend, leave the radical part of Ferox, the true champion. And I would especially enjoin it upon you to do nothing to wound the feelings of that truely great, but unassuming gentleman "H H Boody Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Bowd College," lest he take wings and fly away, and old Bowd be reconed only among the things that "have been.' A word to the wise, is enough: so I will say no more untill I see you, and then you shall have my fatherly advice verbatim, and see my abominable abhorence to every innovation upon equal rights & equal privileges.

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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 3174px × 3919px 71.21 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_206_006_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKR3

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