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

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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 change either; but Lucy does not need her Society or notice and I hope she will be able to convince her of the fact. I wish Sam'l Furber had one of the good births in this region to make a fortune and live easy, which his abilities in the requisites for business would certainly ensure him when known, he will never I fear be appreciated in Bangor that little spot of overweening, overbearing, pretended aristocracy. Lizzie Doe has written me several times, she has been very homesick, has suffered from mosquitoes fleas, heat, and all sorts of discomforts, is not only entirely destitute of the garniture and accompaniments, but even of the least realities of civilization as respects comforts and conveniences, but says she has now a fair share of happiness all alone to herself. As to you you make no pretension of course to being in a civilized land, Your business is I suppose a lucrative one and subjects one to as few vexations and annoyances as any perhaps, but the sacrifice, by one calculated to appreciate them, of all the comforts and refinements of social life as a citizen and member of a community,- still more, of all the means of growing and importing good, is no small sacrifice, ought to be well remunerated, and not only this but it seems to me that an educated man so circumstanced must possess uncommon activity, elasticity of mind and elevation of purpose to maintain his ground; spiritually and socially, as well as intellectually especially when occupied so much in active exertion.. I believe it to be the

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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 2861px × 3615px 59.21 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDPA

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