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 Most Christians leave some graces to wither and die for want of careful training 'growing in grace'only in some directions on other points giving Satan the advantage and the world quiet course of censure like an army sending small detachments in advance, to be cut off by the enemy. These are a very few of his thoughts, meagerly expressed. I told Sam and Eliab at dinner that & wished they would make acquaintance with him and get him to call here that we might sharpen up our minds by converse with other minds. Mrs. A. M. Metcalf Milo Me.I have been as much isolated from companionship with others most of the time since I have been here as I am at Milo. I am just as happy more so in our quietness uninterrupted and reading but whether such isolation tends to make the mind alive and the heart genial I am unable to say. I think some of writing to Zanesville but feel like standing out about condescending to write the third time since hearing from any of them. A.

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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 7

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3097px × 3855px 68.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_004_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDGU

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