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 Plantation Mar. 10th / 49Dear Brother Isaac It is Sat. eve. Samuel brought me over here this afternoon to spend the night and go to meeting tomorrow. Josie is writing to you at home, so Samuel and I will write some too. Your past letter was received in due season. I waited impatiently for its arrival, as I felt in great haste to write to you, on an important subject. Matrimony against matrimony concluded!! I told you in my last of my contemplated visit to Dover & Foxcroft. We went up one afternoon. I spent the next day there, while Samuel went to St. Albans on business, returned the third day. In the morning I went to see Mrs. Hurd - formerly Mrs. Foss, your recollect. She seemed unhappy - and I presume is so, in her present connection - was very glad to see me, spoke of you with much feeling. Afternoon went to our good Mr. Parker's, - who, people say, is liked better and better in Foxcroft - at night, back to Jewett Cochrans, where we spent the night. Well, preliminaries adjusted, was'nt Mary Tower made to be your wife? I did not see her, as I had hoped to do, as she had not closed her school in the Academy for a number of terms, or rather perhaps, a competetor with Sarah B. Carter for that rank. She is highly esteemed by all. We know she is good, gentle, modest, loving, spirited and just as neat! Do you correspond with her now? Mrs. Parker said "Next time your write to Isaac tell him he ought to come

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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 35

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2949px × 3613px 61.00 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_35_003_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE85

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