Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853, 1860

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 seems to possess much energy of character and good sense. She is extremely nice and particular in all her ways: everything is done just right. I wish you could go with me today to her room and sit and talk with her awhile: I hope it will not be very long before you will have opportunity to see and talk with, not only your new sister, but your other sisters and brothers here. Oh, I must tell you of her present. She has received many valuable ones, from her pupils and friends. Vases, Cardracks, elegant fans, superb silver cake basket half a flohera? smaller articles as butter knife, salt & cream spoons; &c gold thimble, silver bouquet holder, a collar & wrought ? each five dollars: one of her pupils a girl from North Carolina presented her with a night cap of her own work the most exquisitely nice of anything I ever saw. - the materials the nicest linen cambric and lace edging which with the work would not be worth less than eight or nine dollars; it is altogether too nice a thing to wear, fit only to look at as a curiosity. She has been here with Eliab a number of times & I have been over their room with my work several days, but it is not like being all together in the same family: we do not yet feel well acquainted but we hope in time to love her as we do our darling sister Nettie. Saturday afternoon Samuel and Eliab were engaged in quite a little fracas - a drunken Irishman who was very disorderly was taken up by the constable and rescued by a stout Yankee partly intoxicated; it was near Brown's Store and several men among them our brothers lent

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 9

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3105px × 3946px 70.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_09_005_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDKI

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