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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 it plain". we shall know why He has done thus, & see, and feel that this is the very chastisement we needed. O! I do hope we shall all profit by this trial. How dreadful it is to think of the possibility of its being misimproved. I never felt more sensibly that - "Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die."And how true it is that the Christian's hope takes away the "sting of Death." Had we no hope that dear H. is safe in a better land, how much greater would be the affliction. It is so pleasant to think we may meet again. But it is late, and I'll stop, for to night: How much we should enjoy your society for a few days now, or even a few hours, - but it is a privilege to talk to you as I am now doing. {Aug. 26 - Evening} The last sad duties are performed - we have followed our loved H. to his last resting place & left him there. He will not more return to us. O how can I ever believe it? It is all mist - the events of the past week seem all a vision - a dream and I tremble lest this impression they seem to have made, should die away

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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 103

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2442px × 3150px 44.05 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFN3

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