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 Lucy & Sam'l Oct. 10, 1849Oct 2d Parker'sHampden1849 Hampden Oct. 2d 1849 Very dear Brother Isaac Your good letter of Sept. 16 was received in due season, i.e. just one week before we left Milo, which was last Saturday. I thought to answer it sooner, but literally had neither time nor opportunity. Charlie and Willie, (as they decided to call him) had both been quite unwell ever since they had the measles about the time you were there, with bowel complaint. Charlie got better but baby grew worse and worse until his disease terminated in Dropsy on the brain which caused his death. He ? Friday. The poor little fellow suffered a great deal the last few days of his life. He had one fit which lasted nearly three hours, the day before he died, and Fri. night another which lasted two hours or more, and died immediately after his muscles relaxed. Charles and Albina feel very bad indeed, but it would be a great deal harder for all of us to part with little Charlie. He is a dear little fellow- just such a little rogue as one cannot help loveing. Mr. Kittredge last his youngest child (an infant) about a week before baby died. It has been rather sickly in Milo for a short time past - two or three cases of real Cholera - no deaths. People have been excessively frightened here, and well they might be, for almost every case has proved fatal. The Mayor of Bangor sent to Boston to procure a Physician and nurses, as the Bangor Doctors thought they did not know how to treat i, but the Dr. from Boston

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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 35

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3064px × 3710px 65.08 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_35_008_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE8P

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