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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 Antoinette Dunbarton N.H.Sept. 23. 1851Jonesboro Oct. 18 Dunbarton, Sept. 23, - 1851 Jonesboro Oct. 18My dear friend, More than five weeks have passed since I have heard from you. It seems a very long time; but I presume a letter must be somewhere on the way. I was thinking to night- that if you are as anxious as I, for a letter, you would like to have me write without waiting for an answer, so I have taken my pen and commenced. I am watching to night by my dear, sick mother's bedside. She has been unable to sit up more than a few minutes at once, for more than a week. At first, she took a violent cold, and, for two or three days, coughed almost incessently and very hard, - and at night was deprived almost entirely of sleep. This took away the little strength she had, and she has since been completely prostrated. We hope she is beginning to be a little better, though there seems hardly any perceptible difference. I have had the whole care of her, by day & night: I am very thankful that I am at[left-hand side] send much love. I hope you have had good news from friends in Maine before this. I feel quite anxious to know about your sister's health. If I write longer, I shall be late in mailing this. Yours ever truly, 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 104

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2903px × 3821px 63.51 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_104_009_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFP6

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