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

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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 of a change of air, and scene, upon her health. Mother will probably be away three or four weeks, and right glad I shall be when she returns to us, for it seems lonely enough without her. We have been having more snow to day - the ground is perfectly covered again, but the storm seems to be over now and it is growing wintry-cold. I do not know whether, or not I have told you that father has purchased the whole of "Abbotts Lives" of Histories, so that we are finely provided with interesting reading for the long evenings. Father comes out and sits with us, while we read. We have finished "Cyrus", "Darius", and "Xerxes", and have commenced "Alexander the Great". We enjoy these readings very much. I wish you could be with us. We sit around the table, the fire burning brightly before us, the tea kettle singing, and pussy purring in the corner, looking up very wisely now and then, to show her interest in the subject. There, father has come this moment with the book in his hand, ready to begin reading - so I must stop now, and finish this in the morning. 11th��; Morning has come, and a glorious one it is. The snow-covered ground sparkled like the starlit sky of evening; and churches and quiet dwellings, hills, valleys, and distant mountains are all luxuriating in the golden sunlight. Father has gone to visit a school, and Jenny has gone too, to enjoy the first sleighride. I must write a letter to mother to go by to day's mail, so with much love, and my kindest good morning, I close. Father and Jenny send love. Yours, ever truly, Antoinette.

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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 104

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2952px × 3830px 64.73 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_104_012_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFPR

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