Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1850

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 opposite where I boarded, in a little old attic chamber with about seven or eight scholars from three to nine years old or so. I really don't know what to do. Shan't I put a "bit o' paper in the windy" and see whether it will blow in or out or stay still, and decide it that way? I must for something with myself. There is nothing of importance for me to do at home and I abominate school-teaching from my heart, especially in the Winter. By going down there, I can get my board and a little larnin in addition, besides obtaining little items of knowledge of various kinds which might be of use to me in after life, but I am aware that I should have very many unpleasant things to encounter. Mother seems rather to favor the plan than otherwise, and Charles says "I don't know." Ezra Barker commenced a high school at the Village last Monday with seventeen scholars will probably have twenty or more. I might stay here and go to school this fall to him & again in the winter (he keeps the school in our District) if "book knowledge" was all I wanted; but I ought to go away somewhere - to get a "knowledge of the world" as Mother says. I am quite "unsophisticated" you know, as yet. They have a High School in Brownville this fall, taught by Mr. Harvey. I understand Foxcroft Academy commences this term with one hundred scholars. They expect

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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 43

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FEKV

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