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 ElyriaSept 13 1853My Dear MotherI am in some doubt whether tosend this to Warwick or to direct to Bangor to await your return then. We ought to have made some definitearrangement about directing letters so asto know that one would reach you readily but as we didnot I think I had best direct this to the care of Hervey Conanttrusting you will get it sometime before you leavefor home. I have a great deal to say to you, & do so wishI could see you; I received a letter from Isaac last weekurging me most affectionately to spend the winter there, sayinghe would gladly pay my expenses, board, & a salarybesides, if I would come. I have written to Chicago, & hada return, stating that no place is ready for me there, MissBright speaks discouragingly in regard to any goodopening. Mr. Johnston had not returned when she wrote. I answered here that I had decided not to go to Chicagoto teach, & wished nothing more to be done or said about it.Providence has appointed me another mission: it is wonderful to me how strangely, yet how surely Ihave been, as it were - borne along on the current ofevents, to be brought to a particular & special result.It seems Mrs Hopkins had a meaning in her writing,though I knew, nor thought nothing of it, - nor didshe mean I should, lest it should embarrass and[left-hand side]just as I should want to help if I could see you. I have writtento Isaac and intend writing to Lucy. Do my dear Motherwrite to me more directly & I will write again when I shouldbe settled.[right-hand side] deal ?corner folded down Aunt Conant, Aunt Esther & tell the friend, Maria's & cousins & friends & all.Affectionately yoursAnna

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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 3077px × 3898px 68.66 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_006_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDGZ

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