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 nice fixings. a window looking towards the west, a washing apparatus kept in good order, above it a bow of large steel hooks to hang things on: then our sitting room or perhaps I should say parlour, contains three pleasant windows, one overlooking the garden, fruit trees etc. the others fronting on a lovely quiet street, completely shaded its whole length by large locust trees, giving glimpses of pretty white cottage with their gardens - vistas beyond of green fields and groves, farms and orchards. The floor is covered with a new, gay colored rag-carpet, a table nearly square, stands under the glass, on which one arrayed several elegant books, workbooks, daguerreotypes, book of pictures like Lucy's Harper's Magazine, my nice bible, all looking quite 'recherche' on the blue and orange table cover - on one side a little stand, exactly on the centre of it a white vase containing flowers, above it some small bookshelves hung up with green cord. I got them made for our convenience, for the sum of .37 1/2. On the other side of the room stand two large trunks which with four chairs, complete the furniture of the apartment. Next Sat. Miss Woodbury and myself talk of stuffing and neatly covering a glass box for a seat or cricket. Our windows have bright blue paper curtains next the glass, over them long white, fringed curtains. For these accommodations I pay the same at is Mr. Rumsey's $1.75 without washing, which I hire at .18 per week: - besides we are to find ourselves light and fuel, making the cost of board something more than 2.00 per week. I call in at Mr Rumsey's almost every day still sit within their pew, believe them to be real friends. Argyle is comfortable, is out riding every day, means to start for New Jersey on business in two or three weeks - still coughs some but is improved. You Aff Daughter, Anna[left-hand side] I had a good long letter from Almeda about a fortnight since.

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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 6

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2862px × 3501px 57.37 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_06_009_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDFY

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