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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 Milo J.M. to I S. August 1st. We got your 28th ult letter yesterday & already commence a protracted letter which is to be "produced" considerable if not more we had written 2 letters which you have not recie'd besides one special messenger sent last Tuesday of all of which you will probably soon be in the receipt. I have just finish'd examining the specimen you enclosed. The Scutellaria appears to be S. lateriflora. Alfred - found 2 specimens of it down south east in Webb's little wood patch, he could find no more nowhere. That Mark'd "prinos" I conclude with some confidence to be Andromeda ligustrina. That mark'd "Strange tree from Henniker" I suppose to be Mulberry, morus nigra, a native of western N.E. & westward according to Gray. the leaves nearly agree with those of the Southern Red bud, or Judas tree, so far as I can see from this specimen; But I dont think this has a papilionaceous flower as that, the Edible fruit however of Morus N. should be ripe in July. I can find nothing else much corresponding to it James laid up lame with some boils so that since Alfred went away I have nobody to go prowling for me, he'll be about again in a day or twoAug 3 Nye has got back from California only stay'd 3 or 4 days and being frightened forth by fear of fever fled. Sir J.R. Billington & his ladys Soap-wrights, of Jersey City, N.J. here on a visit one new plant today Mulgidium leucophseum a compositae of the Lettuce tribe[at top upside down] Have you written to Ann since you went away Do you go to Boston soon if so I'll have a message for you to Mrs. Child if you can have time to call there let me know - & whether you have heard anything from Warwick.

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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 3293px × 3990px 75.22 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFIT

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