Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1846-1856

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 week with both horses, to try to sell Dink. He came from there Wednesday. A man thought he should like to buy the horse, but could not tell certainly till monday. He wished C. to leave him there and if he did not purchase, would pay the expense till Monday. Charles tried him, under disadvantageous circumstances too, and found that he can trot with ease a mile in four minutes; and he is confident that with a week or ten days "training he may be crowded into a mile in 3 1/2 minutes; if that is the case he can be sold for 150 dollars. The manager of the Theatre offered that for him if he could do it in 3 1/2 minutes, and several told C. that Frank Adams would give that for him. If that man concluded to buy, he goes for 75; if he does not, C. is going to raise the price immediately to 150, keep him there in a stable, and let Eliab drive him out every morning, till he find a purchaser. Some say he can be trained by the time he is seven years old, to trot a mile in three minutes, in which case he would be valued at 300 dollars, but C. thinks it doubtful. I hope he will get a good round price for him after waiting so long, but it would not spite Noah Dow awfully. I wish you had taken the other ten dollars of Charles. He would have done some way to get along without it, but it is mostly spent now. He had only a V. left, which I send, together with three dollars of mine, with which I desire you to consider yourself bound to get your Daguerreotype at the first favorable opportunity. C. turned my order except this 3 dollars for taxes, and is to pay me when he can. I think I cannot spend the money in any way to afford me more pleasure than this. You will get it & send when you have a suitable offer, won't you now, for Mother's sake as well as mine. She feels very bad that we did not at any rate have yours. She says if you should be taken away she never could forgive herself. I wish these bills were all 100, or

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 32

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_32_003_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE4O

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