Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1856

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 this is the same as two pages back but with the sides not cut off in the scanLucy July '54 Bangor Bangor July 12 - 1854Mother Anna has written a little to send to Milo. I presume she told you when she arrived etc. etc. I have intended to write ever since she came, but when she goes to Milo, she will tell you, how hurried and worried we have been - Mary staid a week - her trunk could not go the day she did, so we took the liberty to open it and found two or three quires of paper, some books, a paper of sugar, some cake etc. etc. Samuel wrote a letter & put in her trunk which frightened her not a little and drew forth an exceedingly humble, penitent letter by the next mail. There came a girl from Hampden, pleasant & good as need be, but knowing nothing about work, only fifteen yrs old - her price was 9/ per week, but when she went away would take but 7 / s - new one came today, Irish, twenty four years old, stout, pleasant & capable - I hope we

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 26

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2369px × 3021px 40.98 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_26_034_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE09

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