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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 Cedar Grove Milo 1850J.M. to I.S.Aug. 10 we sent a letter to you by this morning' mail which is deem'd a sufficient apology for beginning another. I dont get many new plants now a days but under the shade of the appletree at the Corner of the piazza Mother suddenly found a strange one of novel appearance & structure, the flowers were so exceedingly minute that I could barely with decern with my magniscope that they were of Singular appearance, without obtaining any Clue whereby to outfind it. So I began at the Begining of the Book & patiently search'd thro it. I am now prepar'd to certify that it is a Pilea pumila, grows in "rich shady places" pr Gray. I was of course not surprised at finding it there when I learn'd the Common name, Rich weed. another name is Clear weed in token of the semitransparent succulent stalk. I occationally study a while upon the heterogeneous bundle of nameless specimens & fragments which had accumulated. you know you & I look'd them over and nam'd what we could, & I had afterward examined those that I could get any Clues to, so that remnant are hard cases. Today I have been poring over them with unusual success, have identified two species of Gentiana , Gerinita & g. Andrewsic, both in a bad state of preparation being badly bug-eaten, found a large & elegant specimen, well preserv'd, of Andromeda ligustrina, the same which I suppos'd the plant you recently sent me mark'd "Primos?" to be. the leaves of your

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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 3180px × 3947px 71.85 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_004_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFIY

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