Newberry Library - 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 your friends, that he endures what must be a great affliction, with so much fortitude. I do hope he will yet be fully restored.Miss Cook, the young lady who had been sick so long - of whom you heard us speak when you were last at D- died just three weeks since. It is just three weeks to day, since I assisted in arraying for the tomb, her lifeless body, - the frail casket - whence a priceless jewel had so recently departed - It was the first time I ever aided in a duty so mournful, and I hope it did me good - I should be sorry if it did not - Death never before seemed to me so solemn a reality - Miss C- was uniformly cheerful, through her sickness, and seemed happy and resigned, to the last moment - she took her Father's hands just before she died, and said to him, "Father, I am going, and I'm willing" - I have thought many times since, how full of meaning were those words.I am reading "Washington and His Generals" now, but I make slow progress - find very little time to read.You recollect, perhaps that Jack Frost assailed my rose bush, a number of times last Winter, and made it look very disconsolate - I wish you could see it now - it has two beautiful little buds -I had almost forgotten to tell you that I had a nice ride in the cars to Manchester, about a week since I enjoyed it much - there were 52 persons in the car that morning, I believe -I need not tell you that I should be happy to see you, or, if this may not be at present; to hear from you again -Yours ever-Antoinette-

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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 103

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2413px × 3141px 43.41 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_103_003_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFLQ

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