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 Whatever the true merits, it would be prima facia a bad circumstance for your reputation to leave that road now in any manner whatever. The obvious and dark-complexion'd fact would fly much faster and farther than the sufficient justifying, and perhaps to you highly creditable circumstances that caused it. Still for ought I know the state of the case may be such that you had better pocket the misfortune with fortitude & go on your way rejoicing/ If I understand it rightly Chase is not exceeding his powers he having been duly appointed Chief Eng. N.H. Cent. R.R. and never recall'd. So that the tortuous course of the directors and President has brought them into the difficulty of trying to Serve two Masters. I feel interested in the matter, write me when developements occur. E. Crane & Co. own timber lands and Mills on the Matamascontis. We have had Several rain Storms and much wet cloudy weather but no "great rains." Charles's extensive Oat harvest has been much obstructed by the wet weather they are all out yet mostly raked however. Ann's School closes 20 of this month She expects to start for home about Oct. 1st She wants very much Eliab to come out there and come back with her but I suppose he cannot consistently do it The plants that you sent were Krigia virginica, Dwarf Dandelion one of the smallest of compile plants I have become such a Botanist that I should probably have identified the plant if you had sent me only a single Achenium with its pappus. Epiphegus Virginiana, Beech drops, Cancer root (Orobanche V.) is said to grow almost exclusively on the Roots of Beech trees is destitute of Green foliage Polygonum cilinode of "Copses, & Rocky hills Northward." But for

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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 3241px × 4022px 74.62 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_006_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJ8

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