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Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1845

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 but owing to education, & to the people and example of our most excellent Mother, my taste is so much more refined! That I cannot enjoy, in common with the generality of these people, the low talk & jesting - it deserves not the name of conversation - not to mention profanity, which abounds among both sexes. This place is not to be compared to Hobhood for mental culture & intellectual refinement! Not to speak of morality and religion. I know of but two professors of Religion in the Neighborhood; - Mrs. Clark & Mrs. Sherburne. O think it must be injurious to any one to be situated as I am. I fear I am stationary or going backward, rather than advancing, in wisdom and knowledge, both as related to the mind and heart. And yet it must be in a measure my own fault if it is so, for I ought to reject the bad and recieve the good; also to impart good to those around me. I confine my labors to the school and sabbath school mostly however. I hope I may do some good there. Ann sent me an excellent book, one of Mr. Pomeroy's, - Miss Jewsbury's letters to the young. I lose one half the pleasure I might derive from it, because, when I find a beautiful passage, I have no one to enjoy it with me. You know how natural it is for us to want others to like what we like. If I read, people cannot comprehend nor realize the beauty thereof. Respecting Dudleys - I have not called on them yet nor they on me. They never speak to me at meeting. I am as intimate at Berry Dudley's as any where -perhaps more so. I like Mrs. D. and Sylvia much. Juliet Dudley's health is very poor. They fear she is in Consumption. I fear I do wrong. Tell me what you think about it. Ought I, as a christian, to subdue my feelings, forgive & forget, & call on them, or not? They have certainly been rude & unkind to me. All the neighbors notice it. It seems to me it would look like creeping after them; notwithstanding I don't

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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 31

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2835px × 3405px 55.27 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_31_005_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE47

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