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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 AntoinetteBangorJune 9, 1855 At Lucy's Friday morning June 9, 1855.My dearest Isaac, Here we are, Mayo & self in the front chamber at Lucy's sitting close by the window. It rained yesterday all the P.M. and all last night and is cloudy this morning, but I imagine will be pleasant by noon. Lucy has been cake and I have been reading aloud to her from a Library book. "Modern Agitations." I have read sketches of James Russel Lowell, Fred. Douglass N.P. Rogers. etc. Mayo is close at my side playing with my combs & brush. He seems happy as need be here much more so than at the other house. Lucy and I went down town yesterday about ten o'clock and home about one, leaving the two little folks with Lizzie & Ellen. They were just as good as could be - both asleep when we came home. Lizzie had given them dinner at twelve and got them both asleep herself. She is first best for taking care of children - devises all manner of way and means to please them. Lucy says she feels perfectly safe to leave P.P. with her much more than with Ellen. Lucy and I scoured the city for pretty shawls yesterday, and found among a new lot just received at "Hatch 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 106

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3396px × 4341px 84.39 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFUE

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