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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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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 your word "wild" I should have inclin'd to think it Buck wheat but if turning or climbing which you do not tell me & I couldn't find out from the specimen it must be P. cilinode Belphilia hirsuta, I suppose the Mint-like plant to be tho' I am not entirely satisfied about it, I can find nothing else it will do to call it. You will find perhaps on those Hills Aster graminifolens, a northern plant found on Mountains in N.H. - 6 to 12 in. high with linear leaves & small rose purple or white flowers: also perhaps some Mr. Solidagos growing 2- 20 inches high. you do not visit Alpine regions I suppose at all16 Sept I have had no new plants except as that you sent me, Since I wrote to you before. frost occur'd last night & night before but Beans were harvested the Corn was ripe & the Tomatos were cover'd up Charles's grain all ready for housing Commenced carting it today there being so much of it in preference to cutting up the corn, the Wheat a little rusted but Pretty Good, is good generally about here Of those guinea Chicks the sole survivor at the date of the latest authentic inteligence the hen came off with one chick when she should have set a week longer, after passing thro' divers disasters & dangers had attain'd the age of 4 days and had gone to live with its Aunt Polly. Eliab mention'd his plan of going into partnership with Brown &Son but was advis'd adversely thereto. He will probably stay at Brown as long as they want him & pay him him his price. Mother retains her antipathy to that highly respectable firm notwithstanding the reported Mallifcation of its Junior Member. It has been quite healthy in Bangor this summer. According to my usual practice of having several Irons in the fire I have been reading of late "Bancrofts U.S. , Smellies philosophy of Natural History & poetical works of H. Kirke White. In their respective limes the last are in my estimation much inferior in merit to the first

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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 3188px × 4007px 73.13 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_006_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJ9

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