Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1856

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 Lucy & Samuel HampdenAug. 13 1850 Hampden Aug. 13th 1850.Dear Mother It is after breakfast next day after Lucy went home. I was amazing smart yesterday, and Jane was just as good as mortal could wish for. Though the poor child cried by spells all day about Lucy's going away. I expect she'll make quite a person yet notwithstanding she is so passionate and fly away at times. I did the washing, (washed a web & a piece of new cloth besides) got the clothes all out, boiled a blueberry butter pudding for dinner, made two huge loaves of smacking good blueberry cake, and two loaves of bread. Jane washed the dining room and kitchen floors as nicely as I could do it, did up the work, waited and tended it, and - we got all done, hair combed, dressed up etc. a good while before the dinner- but - I went & laid down on the sofa after dinner & unwittingly fell asleep with nothing over me, and in this way, or by the wind blowing on me when washing out on the platform, I got cold in my head & neck, and the way head teeth and all did jump and sing! as if they enjoyed it better than I did! Samuel got up in the night made a fire and established me in the rocking chair with a comforter round me, prepared a nice dish of cocoa, if thereby I might get in a perspiration - as I was preparing to drink the same, the dish slipped in my hand, and what a piece of work!

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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 23

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2807px × 3601px 57.87 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_23_014_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDT3

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