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 could do so well as description! There are one or two particularly fine sentences. I think I can enjoy looking at beautiful scenery, but I have no flowers to describe the "surface of the earth". I believe I have enjoyed the Spring this year more than ever before. We had an unusually long, severe winter, and I have been so long confined in doors, that the Spring air and the greenery seem more invigorating and delightful than ever. Vegetables are just bursting through the ground in our garden fruit trees, lilacs are in bloom. Than just had a darling boquet of wild flowers sent in - how you would love it! Real Milo flowers- soloman's seal, Anemone, Benjamin root, ground rush, Violets and Innocence. I wish I could hand it over to you- how I do love flowers - especially wild ones. Eliab you have doubtless heard from before now. He is in business with Mr. Haskins, as I think he wrote you - very busy - he thinks his health improving, though his back troubles him considerably now. He does not get a great deal of time to write I judge, as he sits up night so write to the elect lady at East Hampton. If I don't tell you, he will when you come home I suppose

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FEBT

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