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 BangorMay 29. 1852Bangor May 29. 1852Dear Brother Isaac,Your long and big letter of the q-inst. was received a few days since. I was particularly pleased with your ecstatic and eulogistical description of the beautiful balmyness of the oderiferous atmosphere in your part of the world at this delightful season of Spring. I read in the papers about your great thunder storm. Doesn't the delicious, fragrant air that you speak of, make you feel languid and unnerved? if it does. I should much prefer our eastern climate.At any rate, give me New England for my home. I presume you will say it too - notwithstanding its many disadvantages, it has, on the whole more comforts - both for body and mind, than any other place I know of. I should dearly love to see those noble trees and blooming forests and prairie - so I should all your wonderful things. The "beautiful things that Native Indians" and those ancient mounds & works built by nobody knows who. I have always been greatly interested about those old western mounds and, (I mean walls). I value your last letter particularly much. I did not know that you

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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 38

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2521px × 3238px 46.74 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_38_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEBS

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