Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851, 1853

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 perhaps have thought best to stay for the sake of filthy lucre alone, for it would have been sorely against my inclination, in fact I have been long enough in one family~. under one set of influences, not particularly elevating, improving or agreeable- should prefer some other place if I were to stay longer to teach, but to obtain a good situation as teacher here is I should judge more difficult than at the east in consequence of the apathy generally persuading the mind upon the subject of education, and from the fact that this region is thronged with persons coming 'out West' to teach who commence perhaps, become discouraged, and abandon the field to a successor following the same course; therefore no confidence is felt in a stranger commencing an enterprise of the sort.I should have more hope of success to try to get up a school in Boston, than to start one on my own responsibility as some new place here;- but enough about school, I mean to give to the winds all ears on thought about them at present. I wrote to Eliab + perhaps you have seen the letter,- to come 'out' to return with me or stay the winter if I did.If he is about leaving Brown's it might be much for his advantage, to take a peep at the West, he is at an age to derive more benefit, (i.e. gain more that will be of use to him)- probably than at any other times- knowledge of our country, its resources, business enterprises, communication with minds drawn from various quarters-- a kind of knowledge and experience that might give an important complexion to his future course, in a business point of view.

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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 2

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3112px × 3844px 68.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_02_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FBZA

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