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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 between him and Napoleon. All seemed to regret that it as the last evening, - but since the evenings are so short, it seemed advisible to stop. They will probably be returned when the long evenings come again. I am glad your brother is so much better. What a wonder that he was not even more seriously injured or even killed! I had not heard about the accident before. I have been out, this afternoon, to spend a few hours with the wife of our physician. You would have been interested and perhaps pleased to have heard a part of the conversation at least, - the questions and replies regarding the prospective of our lives - that which is as yet the unknown future. The parsonage seems to be a sort of depository or receptacle of all the joys and sorrows of the parish. To the pastor's study they come and open a whole budget of greivances to find redress; or unfold their takes of whatever distresses or pleases them, expecting advice or sympathy as the case may demand, and seeming, in their turn, to deem all that pertains to the welfare of their pastor and his family, as their common property. This manifestation of interest in our well being it is pleasant to perceive, though sometimes we feel as if it would be quite as comfortable not to be quite so public characters. The good matrons here, some of the gray-headed ones too, seem to feel about as much interest in my affairs and prospects as if I were their child; and I feel somewhat of the same confidence in them that I do in my own dear parents. I should be so glad if you knew some of these dear, good friends, for I should love to write often about them if you did. They are not the rich and the great, but "the quaint and quiet ones," plain and honest hearted. So you may imagine many a question is bestowed, for which I am grateful, and, of which we may perhaps sometime reap the benefit. There is one in Milan, Morgan County, Ohio, an early and tried friend of mother's who is very anxious to see you. Her letters almost uniformly contain a word of counsel for me.

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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 2908px × 3808px 63.40 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_105_012_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFTJ

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