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Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 to the village, and go out by the next mail - a perfect scrawl of a letter written in all the hurry and bustle of a house full of company, little Mayo pulling my sleeve, and all sorts of annoyances. I fear it was hardly worth the sending. I thought all the while too that you would not get it - now I think you will get it and that I might have written another by the next mail, but it is too late now to write again to St. Paul - only a few days and one a Sabbath, to send in from Brownville. So I will send this to Elyria I suppose. That sounds like you would be homeward bound ere long. What will Mayo say when you come? He will know who you are this time. He is a perfect comfort to me when you are away. He comes and says "Mayo want - Mayo sunny bonnet on." Then he runs out and snatches a few "posies" - clover and buttercups - and runs in, for the flies are too thick to stay many minutes. The other day, he broke a flower from the stock and brought it to me saying sadly "Mama, - put 'it on aden". He has not

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 106

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FFUR

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