Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1851

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 Anne Westfield N.Y.Sept 22 1851Jonesboro, Oct. 9, 1851Westfield Sept.22nd/51My dear brotherThis is the fourth letter I have written you since you left here last June, none of which it seems you had received when you last wrote me.My last was written when Eliab was here- after meeting Sabbath, we too alone yet together, up in the pleasant chamber at Mr. Rumsey's wrote each a long letter to you in one envelope, which I cannot but believe you have received eve this. Eliab also wrote to Mr. Greenleaf to forward letters to you should any be there, as several were directed to Springfield. Your last, partly to E. partly to myself, came the day after he left- about four weeks ago. I have been waiting and hoping to hear from you again, now you have begun to get letters I hope they will all come to hand, and that you will write constantly and particularly of your health your situation in every respect, I feel a constant fear that you will be attacked by the fever of that country. [unclear] cannot but feel more anxiety all of us about you in consequence of the climate and the lack of easy and regular means of communication with you in that out-of-the-world place. It is much better that you should fail in receiving letters from us than for us not to hear from you, if obstruction needs be, but I trust you will now receive letters regularly. I received a letter from Mother a week since; Samuel and Lucy had just for Deer Isle an excursion on account of Samuel's health which had not been good for some weeks. Mother wrote in rather a discouraging tone of Lucy health and Samuel's prospects but she is apt sometimes to fell much disheartened, I tell her she is prone to look on the dark side- She says she looks at facts, time, however may bring a different state of things and I think we ought to hope the best and trust in

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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 16

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2645px × 3218px 48.74 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_16_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDP8

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