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Marion Metcalf diary, 1883-1889

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Title Marion Metcalf diary, 1883-1889

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1883-1889

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 virtue & to virtue knowledge and the rest. We had some visit with Dr. Smith thereafter in the reception room. Miss Howes & I went up to College to the 5 o'clock prayermeeting - to supper at Miss Freeman's table - there to visit with Dr. Smith in Miss Shafer's room. Our section prayermeeting tonight was very good - a real experience meeting. 10 present besides myself in Miss Tinker's room.

Mon. 11 Letter from Pater. Did not get up to breakfast. but went to dinner and supper. Wrote to Mrs. Baker, East Brookline St. Boston - to Mr. Arthur G. Morse, to Miss Kendall, Mary Beattie, Jack, Wilder and Mary - and a letter home. Heard this morning of the burning of Ladies Hall, Oberlin. Studied and laboriously learned Qual. Anal. lesson. Did not succeed in getting much extra sleep this morning. Miss Hawkes came in, to tell me about the section prayermeeting.

[in margin written vertically] Thawing a little - Concert at College by Mrs. E. Humphrey Allen and a pianist - did not go.

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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 275-276

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2754px × 3874px 61.08 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_12_fl_276_001_138.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FQ0E

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