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 took much time is on the hands- you cantell better than I if it be so. Your last letter wasreceived a day or two before I commenced thisIf I had a little more time at command I wouldgladly answer the things in it but mustwait till another time & now only scribble offwhat I want to say. Eliab spent an evening with Hattie. I am very glad it was a greatgratification is her & to us for he could tellus of her- he appeared to be much pleased with her. no doubt she was much disappointed not to see Wallace & Irving too-She has been quite ill since thanksgivingshe went to Mrs Nelson's father's to visit twoor three days, she was feasted & taken aboutSpringfield to see all the lions, till she wasexcited & her stomach overloaded so that on herreturn to school & duties & boarding housefare, she was not only physically worn out& disordered but considerably homesicktoo; - wrote us some quite soleful letters butwe hope she is better now. she wrote usthat she had nosebleeds profusely and palpitationsof the heart on coming up stairs (she foolishlytold the teacher she was able to room in the fourthstory) so her father wrote to the head teacher

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FDJG

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