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 She has some notions, but then, she's a good girl - invaluable, to Eliab & Maria - She ought to commit matrimony. Among all the names they have thought of, they say they shall decide between Merton & Caroll - They have given Earnest the "go by," notwithstanding Mallie's fear that she should be supplanted in another quarter! She never thought of Caroll to go with Carleton - wonders you did not take it. The little fellow is a cunning little round head with quite a pretty phiz even now, & really a high forehead - grows fat every day - cries very little, sleeps most all the time - Eliab fidgets if he coughs or sneezes or wrinkles up his nose! If you were here, would'nt Mallie & I have some fun with you about various things? Did you ever notice, when you were here & the Camp stove on the flower stand, the shadows of the different plants on the ceiling overhead? They are very beautiful - I never saw

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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 41

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2126px × 3251px 39.58 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_016_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEIX

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