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 feel more in doubt whether I can go to Milo at all.Sat. P.M. We have bake wheat bread, pies, "New Year's Cale" - and fried some nice doughnuts today. I am getting ready for Anna., you see - made a lot of cake - the whole receipt - seven pounds of flour - It is real good. I like the blue cook book more and more. We did not bake in the brick oven - brown bread and beans seemed to go hard last week, even with Mr. Tebbets - thought we would have a week's respite. O, we baked a pudding for dinner too. Samuel saw the nose and toes of a rat poking through the crack in the back room yesterday, so he loaded his pistol and fired. We could discover no dead rat - but think there must be one somewhere. Mrs. Wiggins continues very sick. Cannot probably live long. Why don't you all write? You ought to consider how like a funeral it seemed here after you went away, and write oftener - tell just what you're all doing every day as I do. Mr. Tebbets don't know which way to worry - he keeps telling me I shall do too much and get sick when I tell him I won't, he says "well don't you work[left-hand side] How shall we get "Uncle Tom" up there for the folks to read? What was the dollar for in your last letter you said not a word about it.

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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 25

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FDVP

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