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 usually from sixteen to twenty in the family - with poor help or none at all; finds it hard to get time for letter writing. No help but a little girl of thirteen for a long time. Percie says "away" very cunningly, and keeps saying it most all the time. Papa is "away" & Lilla is away etc. etc. He does out in the kitchen twenty times a day, shutting the door & saying "by. by.Mamma". Have you rec'd any printer accounts of the "Exeter school Convention?" It is out in famous? printed sheets. Ella Raynes sent one to her people & I saw it. Sam'l has inquired at the Office where they were printed, but there are none obtainable. I am going to send to Ella for a supply - should think we should have some from the powers that be, in Exeter. I don't like it of them, such neglect! In regard to you or Lissie coming here - you know I should always be glad to have you here all the time, when you can feel happy to be so, but I don't want Almeda nor any of the

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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 27

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1904px × 3061px 33.38 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_002_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE0H

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