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 Bangor Nov. 1 53 Bangor Nov. 1 - 1853Dear Mother Your good long letter was yesterday received. Much, very much, obliged. Wish I could get as long and particular a one every week. But about Jane - I feel ever sad. I can hardly keep from crying every time I think of her - poor, unhappy girl! What will become of her? Samuel says if he could only spare the time, he would take her right to Dover, find her mother and leave her there. As for going to Mrs. Anstris, I don't know, but it seems to me if she is ever coming back to our family at all, to live with any of us, she will not be any better for going away & carrying on just as she pleases all winter. I don't know, I don;t know, what can be done with & for this poor child. I invited Maria to take her yesterday! Her sympathies were so much roused for a poor little spanish girl in [left-hand side and top] and tree, with tow-boats, ropes and hundreds of men - liners, sc? and what not, all to no purpose - the ways were not sufficiently greased. Samuel said. It went off next day but none of us saw it. Owing to neglect in the builders of our church, the large beams 65 feet long were not properly tied together & jarred by the tremendous wind of last Monday night, one beam sprung off two inches letting for flooring timbers & plastering door. Injured many pews & had it been in time of service must have killed many people. It was a sad accident.

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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 2369px × 3055px 41.45 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_26_013_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDYB

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