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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook (wife). Scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Title Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1838

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 April 21- This is a most lovely Sabbath evening - so heavenly calm and quiet - What an emblem is such a day, of the rest, the endlessness witness an end of the saints in heaven above. How much is there in the stillness of a pleasant sabbath evening to inspire in the mind sweet thought of that bright world above where "endless pleasures roll."Mr. Willey preached in the forenoon from 1 Timothy 4-16 In the afternoon from Psalm 118-15. Most excellent discourses both. O may this faithful servant of God be rewarded for his toils and labors for this people. O that I might do more for God. I feel that I am a sinner & a very wicked sinner against God. My heart is sad and it seems to grow no better. O my Savior encircle me in thine arms and keep me from sin and every evil - with thee I am am safe and no where else. O help me not to forget thee.May 5 - School through at G. closed yesterday. How I do wish I could feel and know that I have done some good, but perhaps this desire arises more from

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 5 Folder 128

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3346px × 4055px 77.67 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_019_064.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FHZA

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