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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 July 19 I sit down joyfully to write, for I am very very happy that you can have some letters yourself now. Yours reached me a few minutes since. I have read it - twice, and have looked on the Map to trace your journey, and see where you are. I need not tell you I am overjoyed to hear from you. I feel almost as if I had journeyed westward, traversed the prairie, and re-visited log-cabins. I am glad you are in no worse a condition. A comfortable barn, or indeed a barn of any description, was, four years ago one of the extras of western country life, and in the settlements where I spent a year, there was but our double-log house. So I am looking at the sunny side of the picture, and feeling very thankful that you have found so good a shelter. But how I do want to send you some of our good, pure, cold water. I know how to sympathise, truly. I sued to drink as seldom and as rapidly as possible, for it seemed unendurable. Some put Indian Meal in the water, and let it settle before drinking[left-hand side and top] whose house is in Landaff, this state, within a few miles of Franconia, has been to visit me this summer. She was here this June. Another who resides in Barnstead N.Y. I am expecting every day. When thinking of dear friends away, I can but remember God's happy home where Christians will meet to be always together. Your letter from Springfield came in due season and was gladly received as always. Mother sends love and Father would were he at home. I am glad that you are decided not to remain if the climate prove not favorable to health. I do hope the fever & ague will keep far away - and everything else that is naughty.

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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 3027px × 3691px 63.97 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_104_007_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFOW

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