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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 Thurs. 6th Jan'yDear Brother - It was so stormy that I have staid at home yesterday & today. I have been twisting stocking yarn etc. & my hand trembles so I can hardly write. We have had a great deal of stormy but very little cold weather this winter; though the Mercury was 31 below Zero last Tuesday morn. I walk from home in pleasant weather & good walking, - otherwise I stop at Mr. Lee's. Our Scholars do wonders for beginning, at writing Themes, and very well at Declamations. May Furber & Some of the good people are thinking of a plan whereby to keep up an interest in the Temperance Cause, and make the meetings interesting, - Viz. to have certain persons who are so disposed, write pieces to be read in the meetings - some after the similitude of our Foxcroft Philomathian Society. Don't you think it is a good plan. I wish you could be here to read them sometimes. We have no very good readers. We had a real feast the other night - three good long letters from you, & one from Ann, which she sent by Mrs. Dennett. Your advice to Joseph is just what he needs, if he would only think so, and perhaps it may do him some good, though he would not, of course, acknowledge it, you know. I forewarn you that you may expect something pretty severe from him, ere long. He maintains that is is a great injury to a girl to go into society & "learn how to behave" as tis called. If he was looking for a wife, he would prefer one who was entirely unsophisticated as he says. He says he knows of no one who has been into company as much as I have, that has recieved so little injury from it as I; but that I have been so contaminated that I am not worth half so much as I should otherwise be. He has been somewhat disgusted this winter with the excessivly "ladyfied" airs of Rebecca Keen & Abby Hill, I conjecture. He prefers Angella

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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 76

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3130px × 3897px 69.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_76_002_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFE5

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