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 of whom Mr. Nelson speaks in the very highest terms has prescribed for her some; She is we judge from a letter read yesterday almost well again. she know now that she is to wait there until word from Eliab directing her when to go to Boston. Mr Moody will see her started from Springfield. We shall feel a little anxious of course until we hear that she is safe at Bangor. Please to write as soon as Eliab has arranged for her going & tell us how & when, of course any expense of time or money he may incur on her account we shall be glad to make good to him & be much obliged to him too. We have written her what we expect of her - she is much pleased with her destination- says in her last she is going to be the brightest star in the firmament will have no I can"t in her dictionary��! She fully means to do the best she can- improve time will tell & we trust she will gain much benefit from her stay there. Libby's eyes are bad again - I have ague in my face & one ear today from taking cold. Aunt Nancy is about the house for a week past. The weather is about 7 or 8 above zero.

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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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Size 3057px × 4728px 82.74 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDJS

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