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

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

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 Cedar Grove Dec 7 1850 J.M. to I.S. We have discover'd here a considerable quantity of drawing paper which perhaps you intended to take also a jar of rechech�� tho' rent pedal integuments. Science has achieved another triumph in ascertaining the plant you handed me the other day to be polygala paucifolia having thus almost least possible affinity to the respected family Orchidaceae we found after you went a paper of Genseng seeds. Mr. Partridge has come.Dec. 15 From the results of the census thus far if the ratio of increase during the elapsed portion of the present month may be taken a basis of calculation it appears probable that before the birth of your oldest child the Population of Cedar Grove will be not less than three thousand and forty eight persons19. Received yours of 15 the previous one has not come to hand, the Stove pipes etc. are also not arrived, I am anxious to know the precise where the R.R. enter Bangor, & where the depot is to beDid Johns troops mutiny or was the superceded in command, How do the lame ones at Walter Browns come on. You do not very clearly instruct us where to direct a letter to youThanksgiving Evening Bundles just arrived containing Stove pipe, Bedecking, Moliere, Arthimetic, Bark, no Bed rope

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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 3068px × 3961px 69.57 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_011_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFLC

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