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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 babies mouths have made my breasts sore - so that it hurts me to nurse. I am preparing borax and alum for them. I forgot to mention the recept of your second letter Tuesday. Also we have one from Lucy Pond, saying Jenny was some better. Thermometer was 5o below zero, Tuesday Eve. but more than 80 persons were out to singing school. Wind blew tremendously. Mayo is well. He says "that'll be the bestest" "Mover, what tums nextess"? Babies laugh and play more than ever use hands more. Mayo wakes up in the night and says "I doad boy, Senfuf" - Can you find the Sabbath talks about Jeesus & bring home to him? Are you going to arrange for a crop somewhere, next summer, before you come home? I remember you said you wished you had last season, or something to that effect. Wilder sits in a rocking chair - tied in. He is a most excellent

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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 107

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FFUZ

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