Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Lucy M Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1845, 1849-1850

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Lucy M Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1845, 1849-1850

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Lucy M Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1845, 1849-1850

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Lucy M Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1845, 1849-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1845, 1849-1850

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 Racine Wis.July 23. 1850Brother Joseph I shall be very happy to receive an emanation from your pen as soon as you may find it convenient and agreeable to honour me. I would kike to be informed respecting Isaac's present locality, business, intentions, and prospects. I received a letter from him about two or three weeks since which I think some of answering as soon as I shall be informed whither to direct a letter. During the past week, this community had been favored with the presentation of the subject of Psychological Biology by a gentleman who I am told has lectured in Bangor by name of Buvoy? Dodge a Universalist minister: I attended one evening by chance, he found one subject whom he could influence he endeavoured to explain 'the science' by attributing it to the phenomena of electricity - has undertaken the cure of a woman who has been confined to her house mostly to her bed for a year or two with spasmodic action of nerves connected with the heart: he states that any person who is a subject of this mesmeric influence, can be cured at once of any disease whatever. The influence

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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 18

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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