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

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 to give her a room on one of the lower floors.& we sent her by Express a pretty, warm, worstedsacque as she complained of taking cold from working in cold rooms & from the coldhalls & passages Her expenses have been more than we expected, averaging nearly twodolls. per week besides regular charges.We begin to think that school not so muchcheaper than others as we supposed- thereare so many extras. We do not intend nowto keep her there another year, but we havebeen thinking it would be better for her tostay at Bangor a few months or even a yearif Eliab & Mallie were willing to take her to board,letting her come right into the family, takingcare of, & waiting upon herself (as she will knowhow to do after a year at Hadly?) going into societya little- just as she would with Maria & her sisters& attending to some branches of study, French etc.We think this if it should be practicable &seems best all around, would do her & as much & moregood with less expense than a year at school& be generally better than making her debut inElyria with old associates etc. Afterwards perhapsher father would give her another year atschool either Holyoke or some other: we have notmentioned these plans to Hattie herself or to any

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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 2082px × 3167px 37.76 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDJH

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