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 April 1852I have been commencing with in my thoughts my own dear Mother for some days past but have not found time to take pen in hand. It is as you well know not very unusual for me to feel hurried with much before me to accomplish, and the time out of school is not apt to hang heavy on my hands, but especially now I have plenty to do, in practicing my new learned drawing, besides 'altering dresses' and more then all mending stockings which has to be done every week, sometimes oftener, I wash too, once in two weeks, handkerchiefs, muslins, and light articles, by that means making my washing come to only 12 1/2 instead of .25 per week various school duties, reading some and writing letters pretty well fill up the time, leaving less time than I could wish for recreation in walking, I make few calls, and receive few. I rise now about five and usually retire before ten. the season has been so cold and backward that the most comfortable place has been in our chamber with a good fire, but for a few days

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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 2650px × 3384px 51.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDGM

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