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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 a week ago Monday. Mr. Rider seems very well thinks his face no worse - no better - either that I know of. I think it likely he may show it to Dr. McRuen again this Autumn. 1300 grafts have been inserted in the apple orchard north of the house this spring & summer. The trees look finely. I go out to walk whenever the flies will permit. I have a fine necklace of bites. There are comparatively few strawberries this year. None near here except in the orchard and those are all gathered now. We picked some ripe currants yesterday. Mother sits close by reading a newspaper. Mayo is lying on the floor studying intently an old Geography. He will look at one picture ten minutes or more. Likes pictures better than almost anything else. He says "Now I lay me" very prettily now and always wants to say "Dear Father" next. I could not think that he meant when he first said it, but soon found he meant "Our Father" - Mother has

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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 106

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 NL11FFUV

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