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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

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Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1851

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 Craft and fearlessness about it. But the bitter curses of the rum party I feel alarm'd for him he has been threatened with assasination A friend without saying anything of the threats presented him with a heavily loaded Cane he has a long way you know now from the stone home & often late in the evening. A Gentleman met him in the Street - Shook hands & left a three dollar bill in his hand saying go ahead Metcalf. He had doubtless done the City a good service but I fear that he has been to reckless of his own safety. He and another fellow went into Vinton & Porters great establishment and call'd for pie etc. - then for Brandt & slyly bottled it & carried it off for evidence. But tis nonsense for me to write you all this I suppose you get much more of the Bangor news than I do. And the family near I suppose you have over and over a different version from each one it may be. But I feel somewhat more inclin'd to write & to read when I can have the time when I've nobody hardly to talk with I am not troubled with too much stillness my young'uns are full of noise & frolic. James goes to school with Hiram he learns finely & is got to be quite a smart manly little fellow he is very good natur'd & full of fun & delights in hectoring Jane as much as you us'd to Joseph Jane does not go to school but I endeavor to drill her here at home and she gets along about as fast as he does she is quicker at Reconing than he is the worst thing about James is he is very selfish - not much to blame bred in the bone- but tis very easy to make him as harn'd of it. I think they are both very good children but I have to Spell P-a-t-i-e-n-c-e sometimes - James has learn'd to read surprisingly since he came here to stay & the credit of it belongs to me tho' I say it. It seems sometimes that Charles is doom'd to always work hard to no purpose or no benefit to himself - ten thousand little disastrous ocurences such as he could neither foresee or avoid why is it? is it not because he does not seek first the kingdom of heaven - but trusts in his own strength - He has been disappointed and bother'd "every which way,, about getting his Hay press'd wants to sell 12 or 15 Tons including 4 or 5 of Almeda's but there is no prospect of selling it here at more than 5 or 6$ pr ton or 7 or 8 when press'dThe Sons of Temperance are flourishing away quite smart in this town 53 men less in this Div. a new Di. is to be Organized at the Iron works next Tuesday.

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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 78

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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