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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1840-1846

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1840-1846

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1840-1846

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1840-1846

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 Dear MotherI send this Proverbial Philosophy& Lucy says keep it in a drawer only when you are using it & if Charles wants to readit make him!!Time so as not to get the edges soiled &cI send up a pair of shoes that I boughtof Jos. with the determination of wearingthem to keep my feet warm but theymade my heels so sore that I was obligedto put the aside, I have since got a pair of boots that are much better because they keep the ankles dry: if you canwear them do s if not send them back& Jos. will put them in his store again.I am quite well & get along finely, it issuch very bad walking that Lucy nowcould not well go down town to get thethings but I can send you some thread &will try to impress it upon C. to buy aComb.-I think you ought to make Jameswork, some or he will get into bad habitsand do take comfort yourself & not workhard. Mrs. H Sargent would be glad tohelp you & easy pay, especially James,clothes. You will have enough to do

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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 4

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3131px × 3858px 69.15 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_04_009_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDEL

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