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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

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Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1851

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 JM to IS. Milo Nov. 1. 18501. "The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night. As a feather is wafted downward From an Eagle in his flight.2. And the night shall be filled with music, And the care that infest the day Shall fold up their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away." Are these stanzas of poetical merit, or either of them, and which? Having one or two items of sufficient importance to warrant sending a letter we propose to mix with them a lot of rubbish and this com - pile an epistle The meetinghouse at Foxcroft was burnt a week ago last Sunday night. It is said the supposed incendiary has been arrested. It is also related, but on rather incredible authority that in the recent freshet, the Foxcroft bridge was so destroy'd as to be possible for foot persons only. The water here was about as high as at the highest time last spring. Pleasant river rose more, driving Phin Tolman's folks up stairs, and 4 ft of water in his barn. It is said by the Laird of Bradwardine and Tully - veolan that a talbot (the crest of the Metcalf arms) is " a most ancient and distinguished bearing" and that "such a dog is the crest of the anantical? and renowned Earls of Shrewsbury." Mother is down to Hamden Lucy being sick she had a lung fever and by our letter dated last Sunday was said to be getting

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 80

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3062px × 3990px 69.94 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFJS

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