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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 We have everything to attract our attention, the kindness of friends, thepoliteness of strangers to whom we one made acquainted - variety is sceneryand the fond expectation of meeting those to whom we are attached by thestrongest ties and whose long absence strengthens every time, yetwe cannot look back on those whom we have left behind withoutfeeling that a link which nothing but death can sunder still bindsus to the place we have left - nothing Earthly could give us so muchsatisfaction as to see around, my will settled, all our children, yetwe know that to gratify our wishes, the hearts of others would buta pang of the parting with those who are the objects of theirtenderest affections. We leave this place Tuesday if the weatheris suitable tomorrow we shall put a temporary coveringon Waggon.I shall write immediately on my arrival at MinnesotaAlfred did not stop in Chicago, he is probably now inMinnesota unless he had to wait at Galene for a boat.Lizzy went to Waterfieldshall expect a letter from you by the time we reach our placeof destinationP.P FurberP.S Mrs Wingate says to make hard water Sept - put 2 qts ashes into a bagbail it until the strength is out, put a quantity of the alkali into a kettle of water heat itmoderately, a white scum will rise which taken off and the waterswill be soft, I suppose that alkali precipitates the linin in the waterthe clean is for 5 pail water - Another; a small quantity of skimdmilk put into hard water makes it first rate to wash dishes in

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3132px × 3897px 69.87 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_65_014_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FF1G

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