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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 I am sorry for her disappointment. Tuesday was showery all the A.M. cleared away about noon. Mayo's third eye tooth is through. I walked to Maria's in PM stayed till five and walked back. O how much good the showers have done! Everything shines in beauty out of doors. Yesterday Lucy and I went out and weeded a long time and enjoyed it finely. Then Eliab came up and I went down with him & Mallie & I went down town. After dinner Maria came up here and spent the P.M. and we had a fine time talking. Eliab has hired, I believe, a two seated carriage & two horses to go to Milo. He concluded it would be about as cheap as to go by stage and so much pleasanter & then we should have the carriage to go to Brownville. E. thinks to be gone two nights I believe, and we shall persuade him to stay longer if we can. Samuel will go up to come home with Lucy. I am writing very hurriedly because Lizzie wants to be studying & I ought to be caring for Mayo as soon as I can. Lizzie goes to singing school two afternoons in the week. She wants very much to go to Milo with us, but must stay with Ellen & Samuel I suppose and there would not be room either with the three babies. Lucy & I could not possibly carry our boys in our laps all the way without some back-breaking. I expected to go in stage all the while, but it would have been hard. I dreaded it - shall send the baggage by

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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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Unique Identifier NL11FFUJ

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