Newberry Library - Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1851

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 Sept 7 Lucy went home today has been here since the second inst. She & Jane came up in the Stage John came after them with Sam'l's horse yesterday. She is pretty well and smart for her hazlenuts are plenty like other wild fruits we are having some picked, come eat them.Helianthus decapetalus is the plant in Lucy's Herbarium (by your authority I suppose) as Inula faleata The fern which we us'd to call Polypod growing in bunches by the roadside is at last found to be Dicksonia punctilobula! A new Solidugo today we have found but 3 species before, all of them exceedingly abundant these four kinds are all well mark'd & accurately ascentain'd. Among asters there is more confusion. Of the nine kinds which I have already got there is but 4 or 5 that I can feel certain about. four new plants today by Joseph & Lucy Hazlenutless. Your letter of Sept 1st was recieve'd by yesterdays Mail I dont know whether you have ever seen Richweed or not, I presume tis common about buildings in some places. tis of the Nettle family, looks some like the brook Nettle made small, perfectly smooth & with pelluerd?Stem. I have got no microscope Of Gentians you had marked in Big. G. crinita & saponria, instead of the last this specimen (which I presume is yours) is! G. Andrewsiis closed gentian, a species not described by Big. The Children brought in the Compannula a. , I dont know where they found it. The Book says "Bogs, & wet Meadows, among high grass, prinicipally northward." Celastrus scandans was call'd valuable merely because I was pleas'd to get hold of itJames & Lucy went up on the Marston Lot after Hazlenuts

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 80

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3204px × 3993px 73.24 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_005_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJT

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