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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 comfortable to day. I think he feels as if it was very doubtful about his preaching much more at all. My father and mother are very frail creatures. I hardly know which most so. I wish, O so much, that a good man & wife could be found to come here & board them.I wish I knew just what to do for myself. For I do want to be well able to be very useful when I return to you. I have a bout of sick headache a great part of the time - feel a little sick & faint & dizzy - I keep hoping it will all pass off of itself, but it seems to hold on.My appetite is good enough, too good perhaps, but food does not set very well. I would not write this at all only

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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 109

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1983px × 3039px 34.52 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_109_005_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFXO

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