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 I will enclose -we think it can but suit you- is so chaste (& rich for the price, 37 1/2) can be turned either side & to crown all, is just as suitable for your mother as for yourself, and for yourself as for your Mother besides contrasting prettily with your blue inside - you see I am writing what we think about it - your opinion may essentially differ. In our peregrinations we lighted on one solitary thibet long shawl, very nice, for 10 dollars. We thought best to secure it at once for Mother, though if she likes it not, it can be exchanged when she comes. I don't see but she will have to journey in her cloak, as any shawl that would do for handsome where she got there, would be injured by journeying in it. This will be a nice article for a long time, and wonderfully cheap, we thought, as Maria's square one, just half as large, was 7 dollars. I got my black silk dress, yd wide, &1.75 per yd, best in the market on Mr. Hatch's word of

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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 2058px × 3245px 38.25 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_010_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEI4

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