Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853, 1860

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 that 'Pilgrims Progress' DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe' and of course our translation of the Bible are the finest idiomatic English in the language that Shakspeare is too perfect to be imitated as the calm serenity of the air cannot be painted or the soul or expression of the lineaments of a perfect face. He called 'torte,' educated habit, named a few Authors, widely differing, as standards, Milton, John Foster, Bacon, Coleridge each to be made a kind of {unclear] & form a subject for a course of reading he said more scholars had been crippled by too much reading, than had been prevented from rising to eminence by the lack of it. -- Dr Cheever is the author of 'Voices of Nature' of which we have spoken in our letters I think: it is a book of absorbing interest full of good and great thoughts I hope you will get it ere long. -- Mother and Lucy have been talking steady, all the while I have been writing and I fancy you will have rather a dull letter from me this time. -- Is'nt it bad that so long a time must be taken in the transit of letters, - I always want to feel, when writing that I am in 'communication' with the person to whom I am writing and always do feel so in a measure - but to know that three or four weeks will probably elapse, before it is received put quite a damp on the welcome illusion: it seems as if it would be quite stale in so long a time but it is really just as fresh I suppose: We take much comfort in your letters do write them often oftener - Much love to yourself & Isaac, from Anna.

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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 9

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2587px × 3216px 47.64 MB

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