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

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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 and lately my complaint troubles me more than before since baby was three or four weeks old. I shall not begin to wean him till Samuel is all through in the woods., so that he can help me nights. Mallie gets along pretty well, only she is nervous and sometimes has the "high sterics". I wish you were here, or somebody else that knows what to do with her; I am sure I don't. She went to meeting all day yesterday and got too tired. I went, for wonder, last evening, to hear Prof. Shepard lecture - his subject, the skepticism & infidelity of the times & evidences of the truths of the Bible. I wish I could remember & had time to write you a whole parcel of it. He said there was something merely absurd and ridiculous in the idea of a creature who had just crawled out of nonentity, and the pins of whose swaddling bands had hardly been laid aside, looking up and asking, "Is this Bible time?" You can imagine his look & answer. He said that infidels nowadays did not go to the Bible for their objections, but to the same state, vile compost heap where people had gone for ages; They went straight by the pure and holy book, shuffling, as they went, to discover some foul morsel, and peering about in the darkness till they found a little congenial carrion etc. etc. He made a "clean sweep," as the saying is, of Naturalism,

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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 2875px × 3689px 60.72 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_26_023_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDZE

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