Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), 1832, 1835-1839, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1832, 1835-1839

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), 1832, 1835-1839, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 My Dear Brother Eliab Dec. 39As Ann wrote to Mother, I thought I would writea few lines to you, just to fill up the sheet.I want that you should write to me, particularly, all about how youget' along, write a good long letter once in a while. you can wellenough, if you will only try. Write, whether you you go to school,or not, who the Master is, and how you learn &c &c I want to knowhow you prosper getting up mood, and how poor Hero's head getsalong, what Charles is doing, nowadays, &c &c,Did not you have a nice long spell of good skating? I expect thatyou have worn your skates, almost all out, already! You had a nicetime to end up now out in the woods, before the snow came, or was ita little too cold? I suppose you have pretty good sledding now.You must be a good boy and try to study and learn as much as you can.Dear EliabI meant to have said more to you, while I was at home,upon the importance of forming, habit of early rising, now.While I was at home, I, somehow, laid abed so myself, that I could not verywell, preach about it!!! However, it is a fact, that you sleep muchmore than is for your good - Nothing is easier, than to get into such ahabit of sleeping more than is necessary, that you 'can't help it'you may, sometimes, be in a situation, where you will want all the timeyou can get. and a habit of of sleeping 2 or 3 hours more than you oughtwill be very inconvenient to say the least. I have sometimes thought Ishould be willing to give a thousand dollars (if I had it,) if Mother had nowpermitted me to sleep more than about 6 hours per day, even if she hadto whip me every day for it. I do believe that it is all in habit onbringing up about the quantity of sleep required. 'Young ones' are in the way inthe evenings and are sent off to bed and I know, that they will not like to get up early.I don't believe that the way to have children get up early is to send them to bed early.I don't believe that any one, (properly educated), needs more than 6 hours sleep.The difference between 6 or 8 hours sleep in 40 years is equivalent to the addition of 10 years to a mans life.[left side]talks as much again since I came.[at top upside down]Dont know as Eliab can read but what I have written.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 3

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3071px × 3865px 67.95 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_03_010_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDDT

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