Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1850

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 Wednes. morn. 25thDear BrotherI have got your things done and will send them by the first opportunity. I hope they will fit and suit you etc. I rather think the bosoms will set well, they are hollowed so much in the neck. I could'nt fix them to match the shirts, not having you to measure by. It took all the tape for these bosom strings the way I put it on. Perhaps I did not get it right - measuring by myself, I could not judge very accurately. I have whitened the shirts some, but could not a great deal, as I could only hang them out on a line. They look pretty well however, considering.I sent down by Mr. Dorr to get some starch as these people had none, & he got some miserable dirty stuff, very yellow & bad. I don't know whether it was made of carrots or turnips, or buckwheat. Per consequence of the badness of the starch, your bosoms don't look nice, but perhaps they'll do a day or two apiece. Sam'l Hobbs called at my schoolhouse yesterday to tell me that our folks asked him to take a bundle for me from Mr. Kittredge's and he forgot it. Great consolation to me, was'nt it? I hope twill come by Mr. Cutts today. I have 44

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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 43

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FEKL

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