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Marion Metcalf diary, 1883-1889

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Open book Marion Metcalf diary, 1883-1889

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 Jan 1 1883
Miss Mary Monroe of Oberlin, Ohio, late of Brazil, and still later, the delight of the elite of Washington circles will essay to receive her friends in the Reception Room from 4 to 10 P.M. and will be assisted by Dr. E. H. Jones, Misses Hawes, Chandler, Morgan, Foster, Shafer, Metcalf and Mrs. McCoy. Dr. E. H. Jones of Oxford, more recently of Cambridge assisted by the distinguished writer, Mrs. Anna Il. McCoy and a coterie of literary stars of the first magnitude among where we may mention Misses Foster, Morgan, Monroe, Hawes, Chandler, Shafer and Metcalf will be glad to receive her many friends in their vicinity at No. 1 Centre Sq. College Place, Wellesley, from 4 to 10 P.M.
Professor in Anne Eugenia Felicia Morgan of wide European reputation, will be in a state of receptivity for the good of proximate beings especially her own. From 4 to 10 P.M. in the salon adjacent to the parlor environment in fellowship with the following parties Mrs. McCoy, Dr. E. H. Jones, Misses Hawes, Foster, Chandler, Monroe, Shafer, and Metcalf.
Miss Harriet Hawes, well known among us as the guardian of pedagogical bibliography will close her classic alcove from 4 to 10 P.M. in order to receive her friends with Misses Morgan, Shafer, Chandler, Metcalf, Foster, Dr. E. H. Jones and Mrs. Anna Maria McCoy and Miss Monroe at the grand entrance to the Appian Way.
Professor Helen Almira Shafer, the constant factor in our delightful circle, will receive incalculable pleasure from the convergence of her friends near the north focus of the Palm ellipse from 4 to 10 P.M. Washington time. She will be assisted by a quaternion of friends, Miss Hawes and Morgan, Mrs. McCoy and Dr. E. H. Jones also by the well known

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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 2949px × 5056px 85.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_12_fl_275_001_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FPMX

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