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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 Mother says she feels as well as before Henry was sick. She is favored with very good help indeed. If H. should be worse, I shall leave school again. Last week was the first which has seemed long to me. I hope ere this you have heard good tidings from your friends in Maine. We are all anxious to know if your brother continues to gain. Now I'll tell you how we all felt after you left us. Dear mother feared lest she had not been quite gentle enough in what she said, and thought sometimes, that perhaps she ought not to have said anything. She hopes you will forgive, as she intended good. Father made the single remark that he thought you were placed in rather peculiar circumstances. Should he say more, I'll "plead the case" to the best of my ability. I felt rather badly because I imagined you did - and then I thought - if you had done wrong I had at least helped you to do so, or had been in some measure the cause of it. And besides, I, naughty child, was so thoughtless as to tell you the story of one of my western trials, without once thinking it might then trouble you at all to hear it. Now I hope you will forget all about it, unless it may be remembered to good. Perhaps the occurrence

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 103

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FFMA

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