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 more company I have & the more there is to do, the garden she grows - but the, she can't well help it, when I am always good and pleasant to her, & I talk with her & let her keep me calculate just enough to please her. I am sad to think of her going away. Well, I am not through yet - Yesterday immediately after I returned from Eliab's (according to intimation had two days before ) a hack stopped at the door, and there from emerged two of Samuel's cousins from Newton Mass. James and Mary Sykes - he 22 years old - a smart, fashionable sprig - book-keeper at Newcomb's, corn and flower dealer, State St. Boston, she a very pretty girl of seventeen with a round smiling face, pretty brown hair, with an abundance of natural ringlets, all over her head and shoulders. They are very easy & at home, so we get on nicely- don't know how long they will stay- suppose three or four days. I thought we were to have no company this summer. As you may suppose, I don't do much but keep things straight. This P.M. is appointed to go on a ride to Old Town - I don't know whether I shall go myself or resign in favor of Lizzie, and take the time to recruit myself. Lizzie was not very well for a few days,but at Mrs. Packard's instigation, I cured her with raspberry leaf tea. Mr. & Mrs.P. are both in feeble health. Mr. P.

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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 2862px × 3686px 60.40 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_011_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE1I

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