Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Esther Williams (aunt), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1866

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Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Esther Williams (aunt), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1866

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 filling her place and sphere most fully. She was full of interest in respect to all the important questions of our times, especially in every thing relating to matters of religious interest, she loved the cause of Christ - she was ready to make effort, or exert her influence for the progress of religion. Dear aunt, I wish I could see you and talk with you about mother, her beautiful example, in all that pertains to the Christian life, - She was enabled to give a bright and clear testimony to the value and blessedness of religious even to her dying moments. - it was just before she breathed her last, that she said, "It is all right": - expressions of praise and of prayer were on her lips much during the last day, and sometimes, when apparently dozing or dreaming. I think, judging from expressions that I recollect from her, that she had a prevailing feeling for some time past, that she was near the end of her journey, and she looked forward to its close, without fear or dread; she

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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 21

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2004px × 3035px 34.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_21_001_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDR0

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