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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 side must be. Now am I not a good comforter? And I must run away and get supper now.Supper is done, and father has gone away to the study, and mother and Jenny are sewing by the table. Last evening (Thursday) we had a meeting of the Reading Circle. Friday is the regular evening for us, but we changed this week to accommodate the Whig Party of the town, who rally their forces to night in anticipation of the coming town meeting.We read last evening a sketch of Irving and of Bryant, with some specimens of their composition. The number continues to increase, and all seem as much interested as ever, in the selections.I do not know but I mentioned in my last the increased interest of our weekly religious meetings. They are not very fully attended, but those who are present, manifest much more feeling than usual, and seem determined to labor individually for the salvation of souls. They seem to feel that they have a work to do.It seems you were once almost a Methodist. Please tell me, when you have time, when it was, and where, and what prevented you from fully embracing their sentiments. There really seems to be much to admire in them, and

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 105

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2834px × 3831px 62.16 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFSX

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