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 7morning I chanced to put him on the floor and there he remained most half the forenoon in an upright position. He is remarkably stiff in his hop joints now always when we put him down. Lissie says he has the rheumatism! She is nice & well now. I felt some concerned about her for a while after you came away, but she is very well now. I really don't know what to think about her staying. I have written all the pros & cons to Almeda. Almeda's letters seem very sad. You recollect Henry Ward Beecher's funny statement in the Independent, about his private affairs - letting his farm to his brother in law etc. etc. and volunteering to give any other information if wanted - recently there has been a short letter published stating that a certain man was very anxious, & his wife no less so, to ascertain if the brother in law he spoke of was his wife's brother or his sister's husband? He replied in a few words, "I married his sister seventeen years ago & have been glad of it ever since." Samuel saw a man

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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 × 3069px 41.64 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDYP

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