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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1851

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 Plank has been made 7 or 8 miles out; when from three to four, they took ten dolls for day on it at the rate of 01 1/2 per mile. The company have now about 20 000 dollls. on hand to pay for lumber but cannot get a supply, which delays the work they average building a mile in three days; One of our neighbours has contracted to furnish 1 000 000 pet boards for $ 8000. and is over on the Michigan shore with his men.The prairie land and almost all the fine fertile region to the West to Rock river is nearly destitute of timber which for purposes of building fencing &c has to be transported from the lake ports, making business for plank roads a great disadvantage doubtless to the country, but balanced by various advantage. This place is remarkably healthy, a fine location and very fast increasing; strangers come daily; new merchants mechanics, lawyers & physicians the foreigners are mostly industrious and pious. Welsh and Germans; very few Irish. A great fire occurred last week in which one young man the bookkeeper just married, lost everything even part of his wife's clothing which was in the store; several pretty heavy losses; the fire department has not been very effective but three new companies are formed & three new engines sent for. A man living near here has just returned from Warwick where his wife's sister lives he brought me a letter from Aunt Esther; the friends are all as usual. Mr. Clark Jerusha's husband thinks you would do well to go there a railroad is building near I shall have the whole month of Aug. vacation which I suppose will seem rather longer than that month did last year journeying, climbing Grace Mt., visiting Pulpit rock &c. Affec y Sister Ann.

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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 15

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3199px × 4141px 75.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_15_004_006.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDO7

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