Newberry Library - Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

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Open book Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

Title Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1857-1858

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1857-1858

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 Samuel W. FurberSt Paul Aug 14 57ElyriaSt Paul Aug 14th 1857Dear MotherYours of July 30th & Aug 7th are rec It is a very great comfort to me to receive your letters & know that you are all well, but value them most for the counsels which they contain. I thank you very much that you are willing to advise and caution me. I hope you will keep on doing just so and I will try to remember the things you tell me. Many, very many are snares and temptations which surround one here, and many are they which fall into them, in respect to some of them, the more gross? and sensual which count their victims by thousands I am fortunate. They are not temptations to me. it requires no effort to shun them, but without doubt they are many temptations here for all and those which are the most dangerous

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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 50

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2466px × 2990px 42.23 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_50_011_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FES9

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