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Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 with him was also in poor health & the lady where they had boarded, wearied with her cares. The first 6 weeks I had a very good boarding place, employing my time, making of mending, knitting, cooking etc. for the brothers who undertook to keep "Back" till they could get things ready for me. Meanwhile one had boils, & the other Ague & I felt decided I'd dwell with them. When we meet, I'll amuse you with a graphic description of Western life. We have a cottage, of brick, all unfinished, is a half mile from neighbors, farms are laid out in sections & quarter sections, the latter containing 80 acres. My brothers' lost is a half mile East & west, a fourth North & South, the neighbor's likewise, & although it is called a village, you perceive there cannot be much of the rattle, bustle & din of city life. Our immediate vicinity is the highest land in the state, a rolling prairie height as the natural scenery around, distant & interesting, is very beautiful indeed. If yr "chair" was only here, I'd wheel you to the door of my cottage & suffer you to extend yr. vision nearly 30 miles. An undulating Prairie, dotted with the oak graves called "Openings". beautiful as the park of an English nobleman. I can distinguish horses, settlements, twelve miles distant. I do not embellish. I am charmed with this spot of earth & you would also be, that circumstances keep me within doors & household duties occupy me thoughts so much. My taste, inclination lead me to move, ride & write to my friends of the things so beautiful here. But hen I'll hasten to fulfill life's Mission of rigid stern

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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 48

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FERH

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