Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853

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 berries are very abundant all around, from within a rod or two of the door to the edge of the woods but alas! the mosquitoes & black flies are plenty too I cannot step out of doors but they swarm & rush about me thirsting for my hearts blood, my chin & neck look some as if I had been attempting to cut my throat as the penalty of picking strawberries: the men put cloths sprinkled with turpentine over their heads & necks under their hats, to protect them while at work. They are famous workers here, Jamie has to come to it more than ever before. Mr. Rider says he worked in the field all day with his father when but eight years old & his sons seem to have followed in the same track. I think they work too hard: there is no doubt that the health of the sons has been injured by labor too constant & severe. Two are dead & the three more alive have each been laid aside by sickness from one to three years. Mr. Rider himself says his wife might have lived longer but for her work, which seems to have been the main purpose of her life. Industry is no doubt one of the cardinal virtues but it has its limits I think it is actually wrong not to give some time in each day to the immortal & nobler part. I fear you are spending these years - the best of your life - too much driven, hurried, bossed about & absorbed by externals not enough cultivating, improving & enjoying that which is within: that that is really yourself. Cannot you have men to help efficiently in what devolves on you so as to secure more of a quiet peaceful & leisure life. Of what use to have

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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 17

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2829px × 3551px 57.51 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_17_004_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDPX

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