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 the comfort afforded us in this - O in the the peace & joy she felt: we would be deeply thankful for this. I would write to Samuel but I can say nothing to comfort him - He knows how much I feel with him in this loss - this empty place - how deeply I sympathize with him my loss of a darling sister cannot I know be compared to his -- poor dear Percie! Do write me soon dear Mother & particularly I want to know whether she was able to talk any of her own situation,- Tell me too about the dear little baby, - Shall you be able to take care of it night & day? It would do me a great deal of good to know all about your doings & plans as if I were there & could enter in to there. How is Percy? How I should love to have him here & take care of him the coming winter; it seems almost cruel to speak of taking him from his father, yet if it were best for him to come, how gladly would we take charge of him: if Isaac moved here as we expect, he could come with them, How long did

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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 2571px × 3196px 47.05 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_08_009_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDJ1

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