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Furber Family: Furber, P.P. (Samuel's father), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Furber Family: Furber, P.P. (Samuel's father), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 Oct 16th - 50I have partially bargained away your farm to day to William Owen.I offered it to him for $300 in cash payments as you and he mightagree, he said if you would take your pay in thick boots 60wholesale prices he would buy it, he said the price this year wouldbe $2,50 if the price varied in future so be it-he did not say what part he would pay this fall or winterI think you had better sell it the field is so run outthat it will never be worth mowing until it is plowe'd - he wants you to write me your best termsby return mail, Direct your letter to me, say thathe must pay the school house tax and if he want to can lethim off on that, get as many boots in the first pay & as you can coax him to - your notes should be on intfor dollars payable in boots at wholesale pricehe his his boots shall be equal to Lakes first quality ofboots both in stock and workmanship andrefers you to Walter Brown & Goss and Upham asto the quality of Lakes bestRecd a letter from J.W Furber Minnesota today allwill crops better than ever before knownRev, M Wilson came here to day boards with usBell is half dead over the tooth ache hadit broken by Doct K this afternoon over

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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 65

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FF0O

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