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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 have just been washing Lydia Ann helpinga very large wash and feel too tired to write but it isgoing to send it to night so I'll just say that we aregetting along well my health as usual is pretty good ifI don't have too much work to do I wrote to get me some calico but now I shall not be able to wait till youcome for all that I want but should be glad to have you getme a cheap dress 8 yds as good as you can for /9 per yard I should likea pretty bag which can be obtained at the paint shops andif you can find anywhere in your peregrinations somenew coriander and saffron seeds I should be very glad of somegive my love to my friends in that country also in Boston thepain in my stomach is too severe for me to say much nowso I'll let Ann finish the letter.If Eliab comes home, I should think it would do for him to stay one night at Mr. N. Harlow's, it would be better than forhim to go to Mr. Pomroy's I was there so long.Lydia Ann is at work for Almeda this week is going to help me,next, week to wash as there has been none done, for four weeks ormore, though things are in better order than I should expect, andwith her help a few days I shall get them in good time.Dear Mother I don't know but Lucy wrote youthat I have sold the black horse & sleigh to Gilmanfor 100, days work on the house, he has workedabout 40 and is going to work about 30 morein the spring commence about the 1st of May and the rest next winter,Jack Frost has lifted so hard at the house that Icannot put the work together till the ground settlesso that it shall not be able to get it plastered tilljust before haying I think unless Eliab can finda pretty good chance chance in Boston or somewhere else that he had better come home for there will necessarily

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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 3016px × 3952px 68.24 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_04_007_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDEG

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