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 Elyria Apr. 7th /54Dear Mother, Yours dated Apr.1st had just come to hand. How strange it seems to read in your letter about the snow! - road all blocked up- and so many feet of snow- I have it is true seen a little snow the past winter but only for a day or two at a time, indeed I can scarcely make it seem to me that there has been any winter, not more than three or four days through the entire winter has the thermometer been as low as zero. This afternoon I have been assess the bridge on the 'point', the opposite bank of the river, and gathered spring beauties and Arbutis the grass is quite green, trees thick with swelling birds, [upside down] Anne April 1854 [up left side]taken [unclear] small sheet so as to finish it right at this evening.[across top]and send you by next mail I have written a month received letters from both Isaac and Nettie words at fold unclear sick caused by a weight from an accident in the kitchen . They mean to come on 1st of May. Isaac not to go to Maine till July or Aug. I am writing Lucy by this mail. Truly your affect daughter Anne.

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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 7

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1762px × 2749px 27.75 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDHH

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