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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 Bangor Nov. 8th 1842Dear brother IsaacHaving a favorable opportunity to send to you I will improve it by writing a few lines. If I had a little more time at command, I would use my sisterly prorogative in filling up this sheet with all sorts of good advice and grave reflections but you will escape much infliction of that sort this time, as I shall only have the time between schools to scratch down a few words to send tomorrow by the delegate to Mr. Parker's installation. Is it not strange that they should settle so strong an abolitionist after finding so much fault on that account with Mr. Wells? I am glad Mr. P. is going there, hope he will be the means of doing much good there. Charles was down last Thurs. brought me letters from mother and Lucy the first news I had heard from home since I left, he brought the news of the fire at the mills: that is quite a blow to its infant prosperity from which it will probably take it a long time to recover. I suppose you know more about home than I do, and hear oftener so I can tell you no news other neither they write much. If Mr. Sandford the bearer of this (he boards where I do, is a member of Mr. P's church and of the young men's Bible class, and one of the best fellows in the world -- I say if he calls and hands you this, I wish you would be peculiarly civil, sociable, and polite to him and by all means write to me by him all of you, I want very much to know your present situation, prospects about schools &c. In regard to your going to College, I think it a subject to be weighed and prayed over, that if entered upon, it may be with right motives. Good talents, a love for study, and ample means to defray expenses, furnish I should think, sufficient inducements for any young man in good health, to engage in a course of study: but, when in addition to the unceasing labor of acquiring knowledge, a constant struggle must bewritten sideways up the left side:112 1/218____________2025487__________2519162 1/2 3____487

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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 11

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3164px × 3883px 70.33 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_11_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDLF

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