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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

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 Ann Racine Oct. 24th 1848Dear Sister and brothers all, I arrived here night before last, wrote a letter of five pages to Mother yesterday, & improve this next moment writing to you. This must travel 1700 miles to reach you, which it will do if prospered in a fortnight so I shall have to wait a month before hearing from any of you, which will seem very long. You see by my date that I am at Racine, Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan. It is a pretty village, now an incorporated city, of eight or ten years old, contains now five or six thousand inhabitants and is rapidly increasing: it stands on a bluff 40 or 50 feet above the lake to which it slopes down at one end, it looks really pleasant and is called healthy. I am situated in the family of the Presbyterian minister, Mr. Hopkins, whose wife has a school for young ladies, 60 pupils at present, the 'seminary' just across the street is commodious, contains four rooms and there is to be the scene of my labours: Mrs. Hopkins does not teach many of the higher branches, expects me to, while she has the main responsibility of the school & spends all her time in it: her husband has been settled as pastor three years she commenced a school when they first came, at the solicitation of a few pious persons, in order that the business of instruction here might be in the hands of Christian teachers, - has had to struggle with difficulties, cannot afford to pay a very high salary at present, but the Committee considered it a very important point to make and retains a stand here in Christian influence - there are residents here, from six or seven different nations of Europe besides different parts of the United States though chiefly settled from N.E. & N. York and Ohio. bottom of page is ripped so only some words are legible I was to receive 15 per year ? 20 ????? my situation on pleasant and ?????[left-hand side] When you write to Olive, tell her to write to me. I do not know where to direct to her.

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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 22

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3043px × 3885px 67.68 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_22_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDR9

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