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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

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Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1851

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 several competent teachers from Mass. The higherbranches taught their school lands being at the bottomof the lake, they depend upon their own efforts andconsequently are prosperous. This is a long story, willnot interest you. I hardly know why I have writtenit. The state of society here is unsettled, restless, variableand shifting enough, settled as it is by a superior class of New Englanders to a great extent.Minnesota must be less preferable in every point ofview. The land west to Mississippi is extremely fertilewith great variety of surface - whereof enough variedin Wisconsin this year to supply the whole country withbread: - it is like a great garden so rich and favorablea soil for cultivation - one disadvantage not welltimbered, valuable mines in the southwest;- plenty ofwater communication: flourishing towns and villagesare spring up all around. A short time ago Milwaukeeand Bangor were on a level, now probably Bangor hasone third less inhabitants than the former.The school is very much a wrestle, we shall have anexamination about Christmas: I have a class in Frenchthis term. My engagement lasts till next Aug. It is probableI shall not stay here after, for teachers enough are readyto step in who can instruct in Broaches in which I am deficient.From your Sister Anne

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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 15

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3184px × 3392px 61.83 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDOM

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