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 My dear MotherI am very glad to hear from you before I leave here -have a great deal to say, but no time now, forit is almost six o clock, & I am packing our trunkfor my journey the other to leave here to be taken tothe other end of the street to what seems now a strangehouse - my future home. Tomorrow is the day at tenthe cars leave 11 half: I expect to reach Chicagosometime Thursday stay there a day then visitDr. De Witt's friends in Rene Princeton to Alton - fromthen take the nearest road to Isaac's place: I havewritten him so he is expecting us & he shall write youevery particular - I do not wonder you think itsudden, it seems so to me. I can hardly realize itI knew you would feel some anxiety but I do believeyou need not, I cannot conceive what I could reasonablyask more favourable if such change is to bemade - I have seen this new friends almost everyday several hours at a time - think I have experienceI have had much thoughts, fears misgivingsenough to appreciate character in somegood degree & you may be assured that externaladvantages would not tempt me without theright qualities of mind & heart. My own convictionsof the direct leading of providence on this matter as respects myself

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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 3084px × 3898px 68.82 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDH4

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