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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 space occupied by the shallow stream- large trees are growing. We enjoyed the excursion much. I am however to day paying the usual penalty of over fatigue by heavey aching limbs- a small price for so much pleasure. We wonder much that no letters have been sent by you yet- there must be great remissness in the management of mails in that region. Two or three letters have been directed to Springfield to you. Have you thought to send to him alias Mr. Greenleaf, and request him to inquire for you? I had a delightful visit at Zanesville a pleasant journey back and have been teaching two weeks on the new lessons. We have a new Principal also an assistant gentleman teacher a young man of 22 who takes the mathematical department, quite to my relief; I have above fifty in my room 18 or 20 of them in the Teacher's Class- this Academy has a Normal department connected with it every fall term. The school is pleasant but furnishes me plenty to do; I intend going to a boarding place nearer, in two or three weeks.I received a letter from Lucy a few days since not much news however her own health is not quite as good as when she wrote last before; Mother is still there, did not speak of returning to Milo; It appears from Lucy's account that Sarah Harlow considers herself a personage of much consequence, quite too much to bestow much attention on one so insignificant as Mrs. Furber. I think Sarah I know must have undergone some change since her privilege at South Hadley and not a favorable

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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 2852px × 3619px 59.09 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_16_006_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDP7

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