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

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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 N.B. The first page and a half of this letter is business, the remainder you may put aside till you have leisure. Milo Sat. eve. July 5th 1845.Dear Brother (Joseph) Yours came to hand last Thursday and I should have answered it by mail this week but Charles expected to have gone to Bangor before this if the rain had not prevented. As to the commission business with which you are intrusted; - Mother and Charles as well as myself think there would be little risk in engaging to hire the room if he will build it though perhaps not on a very long lease though probably he would not be solicitous about that, as he would not build one unless he believed it could be readily rented: - Mr. W. said a schoolhouse was much needed in that vicinity by the city. As to rent Mr. Amos Roberts put up a small schoolhouse on State Street for Miss Doe, the cost of which I heard estimated at about $100: annual rent $25. I should think a house that would accommodate 40 scholars with some conveniences for writing would rent better than a smaller one, and would suit me if the rent was not too much: - in Boston I paid $80.00 or more: - the rate of tuition is higher there. If he builds one, it will be because he sees it to be a profitable investment, and not merely because I will engage to take it.-- There seems to be so good an opening now, that I wish to use all proper means to step into it, and if the man declines to build, I do not know but you or C. had better call upon Mr. Morrison or Gen Miller and ascertain whether the Universalist vestry is to be finished this summer and be suitable to rent for school. In case I take a school in B. I have not fully determined to going to Boston, though in several aspects it appears expedient - the expense is[left-hand side] If you can do without your Henriade while Mary is here because I can have her dir.

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2881px × 3575px 58.97 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_18_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDQ4

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