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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851, 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 to teach and also for the present provides for the family. He has a son two months old and such a poor long-armed thing I never saw not not an atom more than half as large as Percy. When it was five weeks old its grandmother (her mother) made a little coat and pair of pants and fret when on the child spending nearly a week in making them! I think the poor little thing must have looked droll. We are most delightfully situated here, every thing promises me a fine visit. Mr. Hopkins lives in a fine old spacious and truly elegant mansion belonging to Judge Ely family the founder of this place (hence the name Elyria): Every thing about the house and grounds is stately almost magnificent.- a grapery covering half an acre. - abundance of fruits large pear trees loaded, many peach trees with their heavy-laden limbs bent to the ground with the richest fruit just beginning to ripen; - three or four immensely large venerable weeping willows in different parts of the grounds: it seems quite a paradise. the house unoccupied, Mr Hopkins could not readily find one therefore this was provided: the family make every thing most pleasant. Emily is going to stay three or four weeks. And so am I if possible. Elyria is on the route west 24 miles from Cleveland and 8 only from the lake. Oberlin adjoins on one side so as Mr. Hopkins ?

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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 2

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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