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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 It is three weeks since I left Westfield. My school closed just one week previous. examination passed off well. Mr. Pilsbury the Principal has resigned, but i believe I mentioned about this in my last. One of the Trustees wished a place for a relative who would also be in his Law Office; I do'nt know how it will affect me, I do not feel my position very stable there is so much self-interest, divided feeling & counter working in these small places. Your friend Argyle Rumsey, is sick, was confined to the house a month with a severe attack of pleurisy with a bad cough, could sit up but little for two or three weeks, is not better but still has a cough with some symptoms of consumption to which disease his family are subject. Mariette wrote me that he is now able to ride to the Harbour, tannery, &c.Just before I left, I received a letter from Lucy stating that mother was there and herself in improved health, Sam is very busy, and Eliab decides upon leaving Brown's; he has not written me lately. I hope letters from there have by this time reached you. Lizzie Doe has written to me here she is homesick; finds things different from her anticipations. her brother has been sick, is not very prosperous in circumstance, perhaps not very efficient; she is not pleasantly situated.She is in providence, Bureau Co. a little back from the Illinois River, If you can be sure of its safe conveyance, had you not better send that book and write a little to her too, to her by mail; I wish you had done

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

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 2573px × 3220px 47.44 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_16_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDP3

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