Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1846-1856

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 hear him. Mother & Charles were gone & I could not leave home. Mrs. Kenney knows the whole history of the Hobb's from beginning to end. I expect to get something out of her regarding little Jane's origin. Jane asked me 'tother day if Grandmother should die, if I would keep her there. She said if I could'nt, she should want me to send her to "Grandmother's Uncle Joseph's" in Massachusetts. The little sprite treasures up all she hears, & she hears more sometimes than we are aware. July 11th I am not at all sorry that I set my price at 9/ for a summer school. 'Tis the surest way to "get my name up." People begin to find that if they want a good teacher they must pay the price: that the school taught by teachers for 1.00 or 7/6 are the dearest in the end. They have had poor teachers here for some time & I find that some of my doings create quite a sensation. 'Tis an unheard of thing here to sing in school. People like it vastly. My talk sounds as if I thought myself a good teacher! Well so long as I teach at all, I hope to have that name. You will write soon, won't you, and often? In great haste Most affectionately Sister Lucy.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 32

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2956px × 3690px 62.45 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_32_004_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE4V

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