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 Lucy Sept. 18 1855 Bangor Sept. 18. 1855.Dear Mother By rare good luck, I had an opportunity to go down town yesterday P.M. so I made haste & got some or all of the articles Nettie wished to send with the tommy toes etc. The cambric for slip I will keep here and if you say so, will get Ann Page to make it. I can cut it out & fix the points, so that it will be properly done. The blue dresses I would have kept, hoping bye & bye I might find time to make them, only I did not know the size etc. The calico Maria told me was got at Stone's, I easily found it, but he asked ,8 for the drab. instead of ,6 as you wrote.Calico, 1 1/2 19" " 12Cambric, 1 3/4 yds 534 yds delaine, 47. - 1.88saddler's silk 24 $2.96Mayo dress 2 yd 5/6 per yd 1.84 4.80

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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 2004px × 3062px 35.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_017_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE1Z

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