Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1859

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 plexed, troubled in many ways. The small minoritywho go with him - of his church, are tryingto build a meeting house, so he gives up all salary-for the present, they have been much tried, are really worthy conscientious people with as few failings perhapsas the generality of people; I have no fears of gettingmy pay sometimes: - there are people here that have knownthem more than twenty years. Doubtless I shallexplore some new field next fall, what, and where I donot know. Last week I took a trip to Chicago, a cityin Illinois 60 miles from this of 30 thousand people where fifteen yearsago there was not a house: the man lives here who builtthe post house a Capt. in M.S. services have command at thefort there. It is a city on the edge of a large prairie, builton both sides of a river for a mile and a half, also onthe shore of the lake, very low as flat as a table; therecan be no cellars in the place for two feet below the surfaceit is all water which rests on a firm bed of clay. It ismuddy, filthy, unpleasant in appearance but fullof business, all sorts of enterprise - the greatest wheatmarket in the world. Mr. Hopkins went to attend a conventionI went with him ostensibly for the pleasure of theexcursion but I wanted to find out what prospect Imight have there to teach: one of our teachers is therein a private school, she thinks I could succeed wellto open a school there talks some of returning herselfif she does I can have her school, she makes more than I do

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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 6

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3084px × 3924px 69.28 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_06_002_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDF7

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