Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to miscellaneous, 1846, 1849, 1856, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to miscellaneous, 1846, 1849, 1856, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Overview

Image w/ Text

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to miscellaneous, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846, 1849, 1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to miscellaneous, 1846, 1849, 1856, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 you of the Author's logic? I admire to see a large woman now and then for variety's sake, but should not like them all so. Well Mehitable, has your Wisconsin fever "turned" yet? And has Olive disposed of the 'old bonnets' to her mind? Tell her by no means to destroy any of them. They'll ll come in play in the course of time. When you all get off there to "Furber land" I venture to say you'll find use for them! Olive, I'm whispering. Nobody'll hear me. How does Mr. Lyford like Wisconsin? "As I look forward into futurity" I can see Mr. and Mrs. James Lyford - seated on a "great high stool," shall I say, with sparkling eyes & happy hearts, enjoying a felicitous "tete a tete." - or - on a low bench in the chimney corner of a long hut, with rueful faces and still more rueful feeling their heads resting on their hands, consoling with each other in sad and melancholy tones, and bemoaning the "Wisconsin fever" of " by gone years", and the "Ague fever" of later times? Ah! that's the picture. As for Mehitable, she goes out there a blooming blushing maiden of some eighteen summers, fit prey for some of Sarah's "open mouthed old bachelors and amorous widowers". Sake alive! They will "devour somebody" with a will, when they get her. Well seriously I don't fell in a mood for joking - not at all. I can't think of your emigrating , and cannot yet believe that you will. "Milo Plantation" is too pretty a place to be deserted in that way. I predict that if you do forsake the

Transcription Status Needs review

Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 46

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

Newberry Open Access Policy The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to these terms and conditions.

IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2864px × 3730px 61.16 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_46_002_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEOE

Help Need help finding, searching, sharing, or downloading? Check out our help page!