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

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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 is now building a shed 15 square all by himself. Nancy's oldest son Rollin is boarding there going to school is a fine pleasant boy but not as yet very efficient. I hardly think he will suit his purpose for next summer; his mother feels very tender of him because he has not been healthy, has been subject & is still, to severe turns of nosebleed. Naomi is making Father's dark blue Thibet over for Libby. she has fixed over the pink de Laine prettily .She is always ready to help good soul & capable about every thing she & I together papered the girl's bedroom by the kitchen one forenoon nicely with a remnant we had in the house using two kinds & it looks very neatly. Our fruit is rather poor & of all amount this year. apples are all wormy & decay so fast. I wish I could convey half of them to Milo the remainder would not keep all, I fear till we can use them. We had but few good grapes, I have made 12 bowls of jelly of the poorer ones & no preserves; we had a few peaches a bushel or two perhaps I have made a little peach preserve & a jar of sweet pickles; apples also; the grapery was quite a failure there were many grapes black Hamburg & white but all mildewed & blasted only a bunch or two that could be eaten. the wood of the grapery, rafters &c is much decayed. Mr. Brooks is now at work repairing & making new, so the doctor hopes to secure, protect, & train the vines so as to have a good yield next year. We have had remarkably fine, mild weather all the fall, not any frost as yet to do injury. my plants are flourishing, I have a fine ? geranium & two or three slips just rooted, a "Lady Washington des. & one or two other new ones. Lottie's mother has come to spent the winter with her a woman of shallow nature like Lottie except that she is a great talker; all about my & mine: Lottie's baby is seven weeks old a bright & healthy boy,

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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 8

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2673px × 3401px 52.05 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_08_011_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDJB

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