Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to Lucy M. Furber and Almeida ..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1859

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1859

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 written up the left side and across the top:Isaac stay at Bangor? Do Mother write me a long letter & ask Mallie to write too. The doctor has nearly recovered his accustomed health again not his strength - lost about 14 lbs. flesh looks thinner than I ever saw him before. We are all well now. The weather very cool to day. Mr. Goodwin our next but one neighbor was buried last week. Much love to all. from us all In much love Anna.Anna D.W.Sept. 4 '56My dear dear MotherLucy our beloved one is gone. Our hopes are over -- I cannot realize it -- I want to see you O dear afflicted Samuel & the rest of the dear ones Oh, how much! There is so much I want to know, what she said & felt -- If I could only have been there to minister to her to express to her my sympathy & love - but it is now too late - It is hard to spare her to feel that her own smile & loving words will no more greet us: it has made a great void to us that are left the path of life grows lonely - Oh how much she suffered, yet I suppose I cannot know & feel this as you that were with her do, who watched her from day to day, & saw her going nearer & nearer home - to the blessed home - free from suffering, at rest & happy beyond all we can conceive. Let us take

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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 8

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2601px × 3246px 48.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_08_009_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDJ0

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