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 Bangor July 31 '52 Bangor July 31 - 1852.Der Mother, Your good letter, dated all the way from the 24th to the 29th inst. was duly received last Thursday evening. I do not feel very well about it, that among so many, no one could write a word but you, and so a sheet be sent half full. It seems almost hard to be away from you all now. Albina has a hard time about hep doesn't she? Worse than I do - my patience is sorely tried some days, but on the whole we get along pretty well - some days I feel obliged to work rather harder than I ought to, but I always get over it again. I had a sad time this week with that old bag of hen's feathers upstairs. The rats had gnawed into it, and it was fuller of moths & millers than you can imagine. I have seen more about the house in all the rooms than ever before this summer & could not think where they came from. I destroyed all I could.[left-hand side and top] Anna and Isaac why don't you write? I have written ever so much more to you since I came away than you have to me, though there is nothing new here, and you all do some new thing there every day. Isaac has not written a word only a request to send up his knife. Please take into consideration my lonely sit = nation! Amen.

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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 25

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FDVY

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