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

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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 Milo Jan'y 19th /46.Very Dear BrotherWe rec'd your good long, and of course most acceptable and welcome letter, mailed Dec. 30th, in due season, and I assure you I had not the slightest inclination to dodge the "Missile". My "dented head" will rather keep its wanted place, daring, or rather inviting, another shaft. Only a day or two before receiving yours, I had dispatched a long epistle to you, which I suppose you had not received when you wrote; as if you had, you might perhaps have softened in some degree, the severity of your rebuke on letter writing; which, however, I acknowledge, is just; - though I have one plea to make, which I think not unreasonable. I cannot bear to write without good Stationary, & our Ink, on account of being frozen, had been so pale I could hardly see my letters after they were made. I did think I would not write another letter till Charles has been to Bangor & got a new supply, but Mother received a letter from Uncle Joseph yesterday containing a substantial token of his kind wishes for you in the shape of the enclosed V, for "Pocket Money" as he said. Is'nt it a little singular that you receive so many little helps from one source and another, just as you need them? Does not that seem to show that you did right in going to College? So it seemeth to me. Cousin Joseph Addison was married New Year's day to Jane Wells, of Shelburne. Humphrey and all

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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 77

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3254px × 3949px 73.56 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_77_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFFA

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