Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853

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 Do not my dear brother, trust to your good constitution but take every precaution and care of your health in regard to exposure, diet, late hours, suitable clothing &c, while you remain there. As to school and my continuance here, I have some forebodings that I shall not stay after next summer though though I am engaged, if I choose till next winter. The Principal is deficient in discipline, the school I can see is getting into a bad condition; it will affect my department in it's reputation, and in my reputation, -- the two departments being so connected) -- while it renders my labours greater. I am half inclined to stop teaching for good, and trust providence for food to eat and raiment to put on as long as I live, by some other means, -- I am not at all concerned but that I could find enough to do to employ all my time and energies. Teaching now has become too much of a drudge to me. I think sometimes of Dickens' teacher who 'had been ground in a mill of boys',-- I cannot raise up in my mind any enthusiasm in the employment, any interest or ambition beyond that of giving satisfaction and having a conscience void of offence. I have various cogitations sometimes think I will leave here next July at the summer vacation go home and meantime advertise for a situation, South, where I can have more salary-- so as to lay by a few more dollars before I retire to private life!--I am enjoying the winter quite well, with Miss Woodbury for companion and plenty of books, and reading Hitchcock's Religion of Geology' now Anne[top upside down]what do you think Kossuth��? Of his wishes and plans? In your last you expressed doubt about remaining longer than Jan. so perhaps this will even reach you but if it do please let me know if without delay

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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 17

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2895px × 3608px 59.80 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_17_001_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDPK

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