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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 Well it is too dark to write. I'll lay this by till tomorrow.Tuesday morning - I wrote a little Sabbath evening while the rest were talking, and it it hardly worth sending. Yesterday George and I employed part of a rainy forenoon in putting moss round some little pictures. In the P.M. I finished letters to Anna and mother; and, about four, G or I went over to Capt. Whipples to tea. Had a very pleasant time. Everyone asks after you and a great many send love & respects &c. This morning it rains again. Hope it will not rain tomorrow, because it will be bad getting to the cars. I did not mention in speaking of your letter, the safe arrival of the ten dollars. If it had been thought of in season, I might have got money of father, and saved your sending it. I paid for the coloring $4,14. for Anna and me together. That I suppose I have not now enough to get home with. If I do not get more from you at Westboro I can

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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 109

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2202px × 3591px 45.28 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_109_008_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFY0

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