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 Anne ElyriaMay 29, 54Elyria May 29th/54.Dear MotherYours of 10th Inst. was received just one week after date. I had begun to wonder why you did not write- was very glad to hear from you. I felt some anxiety about the storms & freshets reading so much of them all over the country. we have had no experience of cold or storms more than usual; have had spring these two months, It sounds odd to read in your letter of snow drifts when here vegetation is out in all its beauty and budding luxuriance cherries currants & strawberries of considerable size showing promise of ripening eve long and grass thick & high and all tasseled out ripe enough to gather for

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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 7

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2011px × 3217px 37.05 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_013_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDHM

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