Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851, 1853

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 Elyria Sept. 14, 1853Dear Sister Lucy and all the dear brothers and sistersMy letter to Eliab containing a little news will doubtless reach you before this, so you can easily conjecture part of the subject matter of this letter. I wrote Mother yesterday, directing to the care of cousin Harvey Conant, though I think there is some uncertainty about her getting it: - I had half a mind to send it to Bangor to await her return: I had a most kind letter from Isaac last week urging me to come to them to spend the winter saying he would gladly pay my expenses, board and a salary besides if I would come. I should delight to do so, - but Providence seems to have ordered otherwise. Oh! if I could see you all how I would talk! but as to writing I scarcely know how to begin or what to say - but in short something has turned up and instead of going to Chicago to teach or making a noise anywhere, I am in imminent danger of quietly sinking into the insignificance and privacy of domestic life. I can't tell how it is - it seems like a dream to myself that I have been brought to where I now stand; nothing could have been further from my thought on Mon. unsought on my part but so it is a plain unvarnished tale. I will tellside, topthe piano (he has a very splendid one) rather lessons of Family Hopkins and 'he' tells me she (Hattie) is much pleased with the idea of my coming there. A good German girl has been in the family three years and promises to stay till she gets married: His maiden sister a clever body is at present there too. and married sister lives two miles out on a hire farm and his mother with her: he caused me to see a few days ago. Tomorrow the weather being repetitious, he is to take a carriage with four seats & escort Mrs. H, Emilly and myself to Cleveland for me to buy a silk dress most pressing for the occasion. I want you should write immediately so that I shall get it before________? Do call on Lizzie as soon as she comes. Tell her all about it and say that I am impatiently awaiting a letter from her after which I will write her of my state and welfare.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 2

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FDCQ

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