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 feels it very much indeed - he is so strictly sternly upright that I don't think he would spare or try to shield his own wife, if he thought her guilty - he is investigating the matter as well as he is able. I want to hear the conclusion. I do not yet believe but there will be some explanation to clear her - it is so dreadful for those children. I suppose you have had a nice good visit from Mr. and Mrs. De Witt before now. I am in great haste to hear your opinion of the man and everything about them both. Ought she not to send us his daguerreotype? We have not yet found out his name - only the initial, E. I expect it is Ebenezer, Elnathan, Eldad, or some such name; Anna has been pretty severely disciplined in various ways, and I do hope the rest of her days may pass smoothly & happily. But I cannot cease to wonder at the turn events have taken. Maria and Eliab are coming here to board as soon as the river closes. She is a real good sister - we love her much. She come quite often to see me - we are anticipating nice times this winter, only, Samuel will be away a good deal, and Eliab too, some, I expect. I thought

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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 39

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FEDX

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