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 Milo Nov. 30th 1846Mr. White Sir I rec'd your letter last evening. Bangor Jan'y 8th 1847Dear Brother Isaac You will excuse me for using a sheet on which another letter was commenced (a negative answer to an application from La Grange to teach school this winter) as it must be used sometime & as well now perhaps as any time. Your letter of the 26th alt. was rec'd in due season, for which please accept my hearts thanks. It certainly does one good to recieve letters from ones friends. As Proverbial Philosophy says, "and should it thou ask my judgement of that which hath most profit in the world, For answer take thou this - the prudent penning of a letter." What a book that is - it has something on every subject, for every occasion. So many wise sayings, beautifully though oddly expressed, and always so true to nature. I am almost afraid I shall quote it as Scripture sometime, as friend Walker's class do Shakespeare. One of them quoted a passage from that Author as Scripture. Mr. W. told him it applied very well, but was taken from Shakespeare, not Bible. The fellow turned the joke by saying that Shakespeare was quoted so often by their teacher that he supposed it might pass current!

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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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