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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 March 27th 1852. My very Dear Son I am Sixty five years old the first of this month, & how like a dream it does seem to me only think of it almost seventy years spent & to how little purpose, when I look back I can not find enough of good to be worth counting or reconing any way, but I can see enough that calls for the earnest prayer for mercy & forgiveness & that the evil of my example of unfaithfulness and shortcoming and neglect of duty may be averted from my children. I feel disappointed at not seeing you this spring but comfort myself with the prospect of your being here the longer in the summer. It is so long since I have seen you& then you think of going away back there again & if you do I shall never see you much in this world. But that is of very little consequence if we may but all meet before the mercy-seat in Heaven no more to part. When I recollect that I lost one of the best of Mothers at 6 years old then was a neglected lacyney? in the family of my aunt most of the time for 5 years then with an illiterate violent temper'd Stepmother the petted, indulged only Daughter of a minister who had been previously married into a low Irish family wholy against the will of her Parents & brothers and the many vicissitudes through

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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 81

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3085px × 3947px 69.71 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_81_005_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFKL

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