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Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

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Open book Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

Title Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1857-1858

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 S.W. Furber St Paul, Aug 26 1857 ElysiaSt. Paul Aug 26th 1857Dear Mother:How much I would love to be with you today, and most likely if were I would sit and say nothing, if we can silence the tongue. we cannot still thought. it seems so just and good to look back that I sometimes fear that I look too much in that direction, not looking forward and up enough. There is so much that is repulsive in the world that I shrink from contact with it and I expect to an extent that is wrong, lest how can I help it when almost every such contact gives pain, I sometimes wish that I was made of material not so sensitive, what's the use of it? Those less sensitive have less annoyances and perhaps may do none good, although possible may not be capable of enjoying in so high a degree, How is it: should we try to cure ourselves of the grating which mice makes, when it runs its fingers over the chords of the soul? Or can we if we would? As I said to a friend in a letter a few days since

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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 50

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FESQ

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