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 in regard to preserving fruit; we have garden raspberries, yellow black & red the bushes are yet young & do not bear very plentifully yet I have made three bowls of raspberry jam & shall make some more. We have an abundance of currants & a goodly quantity of currant jelly I must make. Apples, quinces & grapes will come along considerably later; our trees hang full of apples so full that many have fallen on the ground the peaches were cut off by the few days of extreme cold weather last winter, The children are about as usual. Libby is still afflicted with weak eye her general health is not good she has been our of school a year we are to have a vacation of eight weeks & it is very doubtful which either Hattie or Libby go next term if not I shall spend time with them at home to instruct them which will add somewhat to my cares I am thinking. We have company a sort of uncle of the children's from thirty miles south of us, with his wife & two children Sh has gone out to make a call will be back soon so I will close this that it may be ready for the mail. Do write oftener you do'nt know how much good it does me to get a letter from you. Love to all with wishes that all would write. With much love 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 8

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FDIA

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