Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1856

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 of eggs! Just a quart of wine with it to keep it, and labored daily upon it with extreme dilligence, (so thick it poured like whites of eggs, and consequently not particularly agreeable,) but some of it spoiled before I could use it all - if I had dried the root & used it as I wanted it, it would have been better. Letters from Minnesota yesterday bring tidings of an infant daughter born to Bill Watson the 9 - of May. Theodore has 100 acres under plough this spring. You ask what preparation you can make to go to Elyria - I don't see as anything but to stand ready, at least till you got as far as here. We want you here these days badly - As for all of us coming to Milo together; I don't think it best to crush, overwhelm & annihilate you all at once. We have got a new "Prairie rose", honeysuckle (only not a very handsome kind) lily of the valley this spring, besides new fruit & forest trees, I wish you would please to

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 27

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2052px × 3103px 36.47 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_006_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE12

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