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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 is it not time my Son for you to begin to "seek a good wife of thy God for she is the best Gift of his providence" - But seek not an heiress riches in a wife is better than with a wife However if you can be sure of the first except the other also if you have the opportunity - But be sure that she be cloth'd with humility as with a garment or the property (if you could get it) would make you doubly poor. However I guess you could get along in those matters without any of my suggestions.I think it would be well for Joseph to get married if he could get just the right sort of a wife for him but I don't know where he could find her tho' I rather think she'd have to find him-he says, one hour is the time he shall take to get married that 12 minutes is all that is requir'd but he allows himself an hour because he expects to get refus'd as many as three times-This is silly for an old woman like me to tell over you may burn it quick as you please.Goodbyewrite often I'm here alone

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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 78

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3189px × 1683px 30.74 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFGK

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