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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 triad Misses Monroe, Chandler, and Metcalf, and the incomparable unit Miss Florence Foster, a relation of the Dr. Foster who went to Gloucester in a shower of rain"-We cannot help remarking that this distinguished combination our Professor is certainly no cipher.
Mrs. Anna Maria McCoy of Belvidere, whose recent literary productions have attracted the interest of young and old from the sounding shore of the Atlantic to the Golden Gate, from the cities of the Sandwich Islands to the palms of the Zulu Land and from Greenland's icy mountains to India's coral strand will hold a coversazione at Abbotsford, Sir Walter Scott being present on a bust, Dr. E. H. Jones, the distinguished homeopathist in attendance - Mrs. McCoy will be assisted by her circle of close friends Misses Shafer, Chandler, Monroe, Foster, Hanes, Morgan and Metcalf.
Miss Eva Chandler, the fair resident of Diamond Cottage, who is spending the gay holiday season in our midst has consorted within a circumscribed sphere to radiate the infinite witcheries of her youthful charms on all who come within the zone of her attraction. Though attracted to many other points she has finally decided to receive at the same locus and temples as Prof Shafer and her coefficients and exponents, Dr. E. H. Jones, Mrs. A.M. McCoy, Misses Hawes, Metcalf, Monroe, Foster and Morgan.
Miss Marion Metcalf, B. A. N20, who has recently arrived from Waban Hall is also spending the holiday season in our city, her old home, and will be glad to remember affinities here. The addition of such an element to the constituents of our society will set in motion our social molecules and precipitate some of them at her feet. She prefers to receive her friends in

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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 3145px × 5050px 90.91 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_12_fl_275_001_006.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FPNF

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