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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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 There is considerable Du Quoin news in it. Mr. Wood is East assisting Miss Paine. The babies have really had a hard time with Diarrhea - both of them, but both seem better now. Willie has very perceptibly lost flesh - one night he did not really get to sleep till after two o'clock. I would think he was asleep and just get nicely covered and disposed for a snooze myself when he would cry. He cried about two hours very hard indeed. I could do nothing to still him. Wilder sleeps finely all the night. I cannot leave him on the bed an instant, awake, without watching - he creeps to the very Edge as Mayo used to and looks over without Mayo's carefulness. I could put on short dresses now - we have enough ready to begin with, but this weather is too cold for the change. I keep thinking what a fine time you are all having together and am glad for you and it creeps into my mind now and then that I should have a nice time too if I

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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 107

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2366px × 3601px 48.79 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_107_008_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFVO

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