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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 29 Instigated & aided by Eliab Charles dug many Rocks from the door wood yard several of which were large and remov'd with difficulty altho' thier tops were but slightly exerted. above this line is it right for me to write a lie he didn't remove them he only fill'd em up A.M.M. Yesterday John removed the holes with the oxen & cart Charles is Breaking up on the intervale today The principle plant this week so far is that abundant greyish looking Mint which we us'd to call Balm & which is now just in Bloom I am somewhat inclined to think it a new species if so a grand discovery isn't it. It is either not described by Grey or is his exotic Mentha arvensis with which it nearly but not fully agrees & of which he says "Sparingly naturalized in Westchester Penn. & in Central Ohio." Do you know if you have ever seen it at Foxcroft or anywhere but here?Aug. 29 I have with considerable labor dug out our specimens, laid away for Geum virginianum (Syn. G. album) and upon careful examination find it to be Potentilla arguta! & of course entirely a different plant from the Geum V. a true and undoubted specimen of which you sent in your last letter this Potentilla however like some others of its section of the genus is a large coarse plant in aspect resembling Geum30 Esq Lowney Cut his throat and died yesterday had a little Son born 3 or 4 weeks ago whose youngest brothers (half) Axil B. & Wm. S. average about 30 years old. Charles sowed his acre of winter wheat yesterday got it at Brownville gave 2,25 bushel - is breaking up another piece on the intervale today the point between the Swale . A new polygonum today 8th of that name P. dumetorum (10th pr Big.)

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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 3217px × 3990px 73.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_005_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJ2

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