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 tone of the mind, the thing most to be dreaded in all ailmentsfor what do the inconveniences even difficulties of one's situationamount to, if the spirits are well-tuned and the mind in good frame.ths last if we can maintain, all well be well. It is natural I think.for one who has seen much of the disappointments and emptiness oflife (as all have who have lived long) to become more and more distrustfulof the promises of the future, but there is a confidence foundedon experience of the merciful dealings of providence, the manyinstances in which we have been dealt by better than ourfears, better even than our hopes, so that if things look darkwe have only to place unfaltering faith and trust in Him'who doeth all things well.' I have never realized until lately,how long we as a family had been spared afflictions previousto dear Josephs sickness and death, - no abandoned and intemperate son and brother - for how a long time, no wide separations all new together, meeting often especially, all unitedin feelings and pursuits, so as to take pleasure in each otherssociety, about from 'the sweet sense of kindred.' Time now seemsto be bringing to us changes such as other families meet with,scattering us. - I feel bad that Isaac is located so far off andso out of the world, especially in so unhealthy a climate - his businesstoo exposing him so much. Perhaps he will continue there someyears and that he cannot do, deprived of either time or opportunityof mingling with and making one of an enlightened com

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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 2802px × 3514px 56.37 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_06_009_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDFW

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