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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 it will very soon come, after all; and I should be an ungrateful child truly to be unhappy here - with the best of parents. I am inclined to think if you cannot come, and I learn the decision in season, I may enter the school room again, as I have an opportunity in town and may be near home.Your letter gave as much information about how we may be situated, as I expected you could give now. I supposed it would be advisable to board at first. But I am glad we agree in preferring our own home, in our own way. I think however, that at present, it must be a home "on the wing". Maybe you will not always be an Engineer, and perhaps we can "settle down," in some snug little cottage with fruit trees and knots of flowers and twining vines. There! How I am talking! I'll stop here.(Monday morn, Mary 14) I should have finished and sent this last Saturday, but thinking I might have news from you, concluded to wait one mail longer.Last Sabbath was our communion season and the exercises seemed unusually solemn and interesting. Mr. Bird, a son of the former

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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 105

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2834px × 3830px 62.14 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_105_008_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFT4

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