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 certainly much disappointed if some at least of the family do not make it come right to visit us in the course of next season and you I hope are holding yourself in readiness to embrace the first opportunity to come. I gather from your letter that Lucy's health is not so good as last summer but do not learn from any of you much about it. wish you would write more particularly and of your own health and doings. We are sorry for the perplexities of Sam'l & Eliab it is such a blessing to have the mind free from the harassing pressure of business anxieties free to enjoy life & free to improve it. I do hope they will succeed in their efforts to find relief. They have both proved themselves good managers to have kept along so well. They could not have done it I suppose, but upon the credit of their characters for business already established. I think you must all have fine times so many of you together within call of each other Lucy ought to be particularly careful, lest with the increase of her family, too great demand be made upon her strength. I think it well that Isaac can be free from business and at leisure for a good long time he will enjoy it much I do not doubt. I should like to now how Charles finds himself in Milo this winter. I do not wonder that he scarcely knows what to do��; it is something of an undertaking for him at his age, to seek a new home & new business, especially with his young family & no larger means, yet it seems as if he might be better situated but after all each place has a peculiar disadvantages & the spot is of little consequence to the way one's life is spent. The docter thinks

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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 8

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3147px × 3971px 71.54 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_08_001_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDI7

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