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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 good, old man! He said to my aunt, a few days before he died - "You will not come to see me many more times- I shall soon die- but I'm not afraid - not a bit afraid to trust myself with Christ" No tear dimmed his eye as he said this. O for this childlike confidence in God! We cannot mourn, but rather rejoice and give thanks that, tired of life, the "good may die." My grandparents now, are all dead. I am very fond of the society of old people, and I dearly love to visit them - but thy are all gone now. My mind is all in confusion to night. A great many people are sick here, and then I have been reading and hearing about the cholera in Cairo and Springfield. I have thought about it, because I could not help it, till I know not what to do with myself. Perhaps you will think I am foolish to be troubled - but I do hope you will escape. Sept. I believe, is considered one of the worst months for sickness in the year. Do you find the "Well Spring" and "Messenger" where you are now? These little papers continue to be full of interest. Our last number of the Home Missionary told us much of Illinois, and the improvements -there projected. The Central Rail-Road was noticed among other things. There was an extract from a letter

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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 104

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2879px × 3861px 63.64 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_104_009_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFP8

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