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 or elsewhere, have transplanted and arranged nicely, and besides have almost wholly weeded the beds & parsnips, tended the vines to keep away the bugs, digged about the tomatoes & watered all things most faithfully- I like to stay out there so well that I forget to come in when I am tired frequently. The Okra is doing finely and two plants of Mrs Page's "Martanns" are up & looking well. Mr. Moran has been here and hoed the garden fixed gravel walks etc.etc. The little rose bushes down by the fence are prospering & the Prairie rose looking beautifully, I have ripped off half the buds for the benefit of the bush. I want you here to look at things with one, though doubtless you see many things every day better worth looking at than anything here. Samuel has been to Searsport three times this week to see about his lumber. He has

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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 2074px × 3183px 37.81 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_015_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEIS

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