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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Betsy Conant (aunt), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846 (copy), 1862

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Betsy Conant (aunt), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846 (copy), 1862

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Betsy Conant (aunt), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846 (copy), 1862

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1846 (copy), 1862

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 From AnnElynia, Loraine Co. Ohio, June 5th 1862My Dear Sister, ( to Betsy Conant) I have had it in my mind to write to you every day this long time But one thing & another steals away the time I often think of you & Esther & do so want to know not only your external condition & circumstances, but what you think and feel your joys, & Sorrows, your comfort & your trials- Can you realise what aged people we are I frequently set myself to ponder the subject and try to feel - but I cannot - that I am as old as people of my age us'd to be when I was young persons as old as my children are were very old folks then I can see when I look in the glass how wrinkled I am & can see how Mis Sim' Stearns look'd to me when I went there once, when I was a child, with her mouth all "caved in" it didn't occur to me that I should ever look so Perhaps you will laugh at me when I tell you that I have lately got a set of false teeth my children have teased me to - this ten years but I had one tooth remaining & could not feel willing to till a few weeks since that one left me --- & Anna's husband & Isaac persuaded me to have some false ones I can eat with them & they have not occasion'd me any pain My health is very good & I have every privelege & every comfort that I can need and I surely ought to be very thankful I do feel that I am very underserving that I have done very little good in the world to what I might have done & ought to have done

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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 69

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2971px × 4794px 81.53 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_69_002_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FF5L

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