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

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

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 with babies and all things else. We have had some very cold weather this week, but yesterday was fine and so is today - mild & clear. I went into singing school from eight to nine last night- haven't been so great a crowd this long time. The hall was crowded full - great many came to hear. I have not felt as well as usual for some days. I do not know but I must conclude that I am a dyspeptic, though I do not love to think so. Almost every thing I eat hurts me, or else something else does. Last Tuesday we had calls from four ladies, and yesterday Miss Hannah Marshall & Mrs. Enoch Marshall, & Mr. Jonathan Ireland's wife, and a Miss Straw were here. So it is about every day. The babies have both, within a day or two begun sucking their thumbs taking apparently all possible comfort in so doing. What must I do about

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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 107

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2264px × 3579px 46.40 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_107_003_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFV7

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