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 Lucy & Mother Bangor Aug. 25, 1851Mt. H. Sept. 13.1851but he feels pretty weak. He had a violent attack of billious cholic one night, which made him sweat so profusely as to help throw the fever. His appetite is returning, and we hope he will be about in a few days. He never was sick a day before since he can remember. It is very hard for him to be away from the mill just now, but he takes it very patiently. The neighbors are very kind all of them, and Uncle Natty is particularly attentive - calls once or twice a day and offers his services abundantly. He seems to have taken quite a notion to Samuel. People remark it, say that Mr Roberts and his wife were sick all winter and he never called once! I have written you all about it, but perhaps you never got the letter, so I will tell you again that five or six weeks ago I begun to get well really fast all at once. Dr Mc Ruen left me some new medicine about that time - don't know whether that gave me a start or not. I gained wonderfully for about a fortnight - lost my chair upstairs, went afoot all about the house, got up stairs alone two or three times, and went out round the side of the house twice well. I was greatly rejoiced and very careful too, but alack and alas! Nobody knows how nor why I got movement again. I have been able even since however with the exception of a few days in this ill time to get about the house what is necessary without the chair. A few days before Samuel was taken sick, I took a notion to send for Dr Rich and see what he could do for me.

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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 37

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2936px × 3730px 62.70 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_37_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEA4

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