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 found in all. The works of creation are beautiful, and calculated to exert a soothing and elevating influence upon the mind, and perhaps enjoyed with a double zest by the business man in occasional walks in the fields and woods.....We ought to look, not merely to present enjoyment, but to consequences: for the young that situation is most desirable which best prepares for after life: Says Carlyle "Silently devour the chagrins of your present situation as all human situations have many.".. As to being your own master I trust you are, and will be, that, in whatever place you are, as much as you could be at present in the green fields.______________ Mr. Joseph M. Metcalf Care of Goss and Upham Bangor Me.AnnJuly 5 1845[bottom of page] In regard to your staying there I should judge that if you diligently improved the advantages within your reach, and cure your elf of your 'aristocracy' by freely mingling in social converse with your fellow men, and gaining all the information you can from every thing that comes within the sphere of your observation that it would be worth more to you to spend the next six month in Bangor, than in any other situation you could obtain, even if you should receive no more wage, than for your current expenses, it would probably be the best school you could go to.--------

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FDQ7

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