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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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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 Racine March 19th 1850Dear BrotherYour last is before me, and I am quite surprised to see that the date is so long ago, as last Dec.Can it be that three months have passed away so quickly-- I deferred answering yours, because I happened just then to owe letters to all the folks, which I wrote one after another, as I could find time, without taking evenings much, because light is scarce then at this place.Three weeks ago I received a better from Mother and Lucy with your signature affixed thereto. I was very glad to hear the news it contained. Lucy was good to write me before receiving mine, which however was then on its way, also one to Mother and Joseph, one to Samuel, and a week later one to Eliab enclosing a draft for 50 dolls for him to put out to useing for me. You all thought me negligent in writing but the truth is a long letter to Mother & Joseph sent late last fall, never reached them.. I waited for an answer to it longer than I ought perhaps, wondering at Joseph's silence. My last to Mother reached Milo two or three weeks before she returned; yesterday I received her answer, and a good longer one from Joseph at the beginning he said it would be short, because it tired him to write long. poor fellow; his letter was like himself kind, straight forward full of good sound sense; He advises me not to go home at present, says 'his estimate of the world is confessedly

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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 16

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2883px × 3602px 59.45 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_16_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDOQ

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