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 Hampden Aug. 13th 1849.Dear Friends It is washing day after tea. Samuel has not come, and I do not feel like doing any thing else, so I'll put pen to paper for your behoof, though I don't seem to have any thing in particular to say. The one great and absorbing topic of conversation here is the "Cholera". I heard so much of it, that for two or three days after I came back I really felt quite alarmed, felt as tough I was as likely to be taken any minutes as not, but feel quite calm now - do not think much about it. There are so many reports one can hardly tell what to believe. There have been eleven deaths in Hampden and Hermon. I have heard of no new cases within a day or two. No one who was sick recovered. Some say it was "ship fever" brought by a sailor. Whatever it was, it was certainly contagious. Some thing it is owing to bad water. Dea. Adams says that forty two years ago that neighborhood about that pond, was almost entirely depopulated by a disease similar to this, denominated then "Cold Plague." For my part I wish I need not think of Cholera again for a month, but I can hardly keep it out of my mind day nor night. Mr. Crosby's people and Samuel persist on eating cucumbers freely notwithstanding. Joseph's Cholera cobs I consider perfectly harmless when eaten moderately. I have always eaten them and do not know that they even hurt me. As for the Cholera, I

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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 45

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2961px × 3696px 62.65 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_45_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEMK

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