Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851, 1853

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 firing away, the journey to Milo and above all anxiety grief and the great disappointment of our confident anticipation:- all were too much. How happy we were those few weeks at H. working, reading, planning and looking forward to the winter's happiness. I do not think it at all strange that you are weaker instead of stronger: - still it seems as if by this time you ought to be gaining again under Mother's and Almeda's nursing in the quiet of home with Isaac to help too, with all his strength - which we all know to be great! I feel troubled want to know more particularly how you feel and get along. C.Chase said she was obliged to lie on her back a great deal, that she gained fourteen by doing so. Is it only weakness or are you troubled with any of your old pains in the side and shoulder? What further does the little doctor say? Would not a jar of tamarinds preserved, be a good tonic? they are excellent to give an appetite. Don't be in a hurry to go back to Hampden. If you do not get better I shall be for coming home to keep house for you. I should enjoy it much better than teaching. I find that time and experience have damped my zeal and ambition - my once sanguine feelings are gone, much of my daily core and toil is weariness, now to the

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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 2

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FDC0

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