Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1846-1856

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 feel a little more uneasy then you do! You are very good to tell me of Mayo's sayings and doings - please do so every time you write - I love to know them dearly. Percie don't say so much, but he seems to understand pretty well about matters and things. He is very fond of flowers, wants them all the time, will handle them over & arrange them for an hour or two at a time in silence, only now & then saying to himself, "Per make botay for Mamma". It is very warm and sultry today. Things in the garden do grow wonderfully. I have a lemon shrub growing nicely, one that Mrs. Page rooted for me, however. One slip of the monthly rose lived. We got several varieties of verbena slips, about half of which are alive now. Isaac can tell you how famously my verbena has extended itself in the garden, notwithstanding I have given away four large pieces from

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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 41

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2085px × 3271px 39.06 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_014_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEIN

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