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Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook pages, 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 pages, 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 Nov. 25 Thanksgiving no meeting. Went to Wedding {Lorfair? Knapp's} in evening enjoyed very well thought of home and dear friends there.Dec - Letter from home father mother and brothers all wrote a portion. It was very very welcome. all are well. I feel grateful to God that he has preserved my dear friends in health and happiness.Dec 19 - Sabbath - come to Elder Knapp last eve to spend a Sabbath and go to cch in Lockport. Oh that it may not be a misspent Sabbath - my heart is cold & I have Ch: for grace to do soften it. __ met a unclear. Dr. Merrit who was from Epsom and knew my parents there urged me very much to go and see her I told him I would try.Dec 25 - Christmas - went to Mr Hopkin's with Mr Clarey Came home in the evening and found a box I had been expecting from home had arrived. I was very happy indeed - it was full of tokens of love and kindness I felt grateful that it came safely - God is good - His mercies are new every morning and fresh every evening. O that I loved him more.Dec 26. Sab. The last Sabbath in the year. Oh how far am I from what I should be let me seriously in Thine into my spiritual state. am I nearer heaven than when the year commenced! I hope I do feel an increasingly intense in heavenly realities - Two dear friends, my own dear grandmother's - links in the chain that bound me to earth and now among the ransomed hosts above - and others whom I loved have during the past year found a home with the dead, and I know not who next may go - many doubtless will be deprived of dear friends by the grip of death ere the last Sabbath of another year comes round.

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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 3573px × 2872px 58.75 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_009_011.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FHSG

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