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Marion Metcalf diary, 1892-1901

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Open book Marion Metcalf diary, October 1892

Title Marion Metcalf diary, 1892-1901

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1892-1901

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 which we went down to see Miss Showers - Mended clothes & read Shakespere - King Richard II. Funeral at 4 in church. Burial in military form with battalion from Fort Monroe. A volley fired over the grave, & good night call sounded from bugle - students & teachers filed around & threw flowers into the grave. Payers as usual in evening - Misses Moore, Adams & Forte came over to our room afterwards.

Sunday. 14. Lovely weather. Kept door at C.D. meeting this morning, to find out what it was like - S.S. as usual - Temperance Lesson - Poorhouse in P.M. rowed. W.H. Harris went to help row. Miss Cleveland & Miss Moore went also - church Service. no sermon - addresses by several of the colored ministers of the Convention - somewhat tiresome - Walked to cemetery after church with Minnie Wilson, Amanda Carter, & Lizzie Wilkerson. Y.M.C.A. meeting after supper. heard 2 of the former members of Pastors class - also Rev. Mr. Deems & Pres. Hayes of Lynchburg, & of Oberlin, '88. At chapel in evening several graduates of this school spoke, about the General. Mr Banks - Mr Daggs - Mr Deems, Mr Brandon - Very tired after it all - service lasted till 9:15.

Monday. 15. Clouds in P.M. but scarcely any rain. No letters - Wrote to John, Nette, Laura

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 12 Folder 277

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2521px × 4907px 70.82 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_12_fl_277_001_055.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FQCD

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