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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 Bangor Dec. 30th 1846.Dear BrotherI wish you a happy new year!- Although the old year still lingers on the footsteps of steady old time; yet eve this reaches you, it will have vanished;_ receded from our view, but not into oblivion;- it will have taken its place in the imperishable past! Solemn thought! that all that has been, exists, and will, forever.All our main thoughts, trifling imaginations,- secret,- perhaps, untidy purposes, and indelibly impressed on the tablets of memory and though forgotten long, will one day brighten into view as if written with a pencil of light.Your last letter came duly to hand, it as very acceptable and though longer delayed than your answered usually are, I have no right to complain. Mother received a good letter from you while I was at home at Thanksgiving & in her letter yo us a few days since, she mentioned having heard from you and of your journey of which I should like to have an account soon from you.Template:Side of letterYou know how glad I should be to have the enclosed 100 times as much.

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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 12

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3144px × 3872px 69.69 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_12_005_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDM8

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