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 Saturday Eve. Oct. 13th ( I believe) 1849.Dear Brother Joseph I was at Bangor yesterday, and Eliab gave me your last two letters to him. They made me feel very bad. It seems to me I cannot believe that you are really growing worse. I don't know what to say to you. I cannot bear the idea of your going away, and yet I am afraid it is best. I don't see how you can go. You are not able to endure the journey. It seems to me you will be all worn out before you could get to any water cure establishment. I do so wish, if it is best for you to go at all, that you had gone the first of last summer, when you were better able. I dare not say anything to discourage you, for I don't know but it is best. I don't know what to say. Would'nt it be better (no matter what it costs) to get a hydropathic doctor to come here and doctor and take care of you, than for you to try to go away so far? But if you do decide that it is best to go, ought not, must not, Mother go with you and stay as long as you stay. What is money compared with life and health and comfort? I dare not say anything either in favor or against your going, but I should think of it well. I can pray for you, dear brother, and I do constantly, that if it can be, you may be restored to health - and resigned to whatever may be in store for you. I have thought of it a great deal. and am very glad that you are so patient and cheerful as you have always been since you have been lame. It does not seem right, certainly, in such a

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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 2980px × 3724px 63.53 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_45_009_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEMQ

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