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Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Open book Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Title Various, to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 Lizzie Doe Lameville Sept. 14th / 51My Lucy dear Your last kind favor came to me at this place about two weeks since. Various have been my wanderings & diverse my thoughts & plans in regard to spending the Winter in this Western world since I last wrote you. Six weeks ago, perhaps I left Providence. My eldest brother Thomas decided on teaching, rented his place, & we disbanded. By special invitation I came here, (to stay a little) homeward bound. Two weeks of much enjoyment passed. when the day as the shadows of evening were deepening. My brothers, three, drove up. One run hastily in, to say to me that brother Frank was not quite in his right mind etc. The next moment himself appeared, clasped me in his arms, with tears of joy exclaiming "I thought you were dead, I saw you in heaven & I wanted to get to you" During the 48 hours he remained with us we had medical attendance almost constantly, but he grew worse at length violent. He was taken to Chicago to the insane Asylum in so high an excitement that the Dr. there in charge said in one night he gave him morphine sufficient to kill five well men, with little effect. An extra man is employed with him, the charge is $10.00 per week. He has been there nearly three weeks they have succeeded in allaying the violence of emotion & in inducing sleep. The cause we do not know. The premonotory symptoms for a few weeks were extreme irritability, & sleepless nights. The physician writes me every week. He closed

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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 48

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3002px × 3704px 63.66 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_48_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEQZ

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