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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 Nettie DunbartonJuly 21, 1860Dunbarton, July 21, 1860My very dear Isaac, Here I am safely arrived at the dear old homestead. I reached here just at tea time last night. Find mother very feeble and father ditto just now. He was not able to preach last Sabbath and will not be able tomorrow. He seems to feel quite discouraged. Almost every other day he has severe blind headache, so that he cannot read or study or write a sermon. He could not read it or read the hymns to accompany. Last Sabbath a sermon was read in the A.M. and the people went to Baptist chh in the P.M. Will do so tomorrow also. I found that Miss Colby

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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 2256px × 3585px 46.31 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_109_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFWZ

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