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Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1845

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 business for him in a counting room at only twenty dollars per month, so he has applied for Midshipmaning berth, and expects to get it. Isaac Newton gets his living by teaching music etc. has two hundred dollars per year for singing in the Episcopal church. At the last commencement at Yale, he was sent for to go there & recieved $50.00 for singing three peices at a Concert. Caleb has married a step-daughter of a Professor in Yale College, and is now teaching music in Philadelphia, though he has applied for a situation in Boston as a teacher of the languages. Uncle Peletiak's folks are prospering as well as usual and Uncle Joseph's are all well & happy. Humphrey is teaching school - boarding at home. Addison works with Hannah's husband at shoemaking, Tannery business etc. Maria is at the Normal school, (manual labor) at Lexington, intends to stay a year longer. Uncle Jacob drinks yet. Josiah is teaching in Royalton. Our good friend My. Childs (can you credit the assertion) did "open her head" so wide as to take Mother and Eliab both in. She was graciously pleased to bestow upon Eliab, as a remuneration for sundry errands etc. done by him, a nice broadcloth coat, which belonged to Mr. Childs (which, by the way Mother thinks can be made over into a handsome dress coat for you, so she says you had better not get one till she comes home) also a pr. of pants, a nice comforter, a pr of gloves and a silver dollar. To Mother she did in like manner present calico for a dress, a dollar in money and a quantity of fine bleached cotton, which Mother

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 30

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3057px × 3791px 66.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_30_006_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE36

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