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 Anna DW. 1856My Dear Daughter I received your letter was much surprised. & grieve at your sickness weakness & distress think you must have had a sad time of it Hope you will soon get your strength & that all will be well in the end. I hope your Caroline is with you & am sure you must need a good girl is Lizzie a help to you or only an additional care & burden Anna's Mary is very excellent help when she first came here it was very hard getting along for she & A. could not understand each other at all, but now Mary takes the whole care in the kitchen & she makes uniformly the very best bread & without soda or saleratus. She makes her yeast by boiling Hops strains the water & boils par'd potato's in it then puts in some flour & little sugar with a little of her old yeast to ferment it at the top of the saccharine fermentation she bottles it up & it keeps good for 2 or 3 weeks. She sets her bread to rise over night but & believe she never lets it get sour or acid[up side]There is a grand exhibition going on to close the ? term of school in which Hattie is to begin by playing a duet acting in a tableau & diagoque & reading compositions. It is to be in a public hall & the performers are to dress on ?&c, &c. All quite exciting to scholars but foolish & impervious to studies. Libby is quite well now will be able to go to school steadily & I hope next term My love to Lizzie if she will write to Hatty she will be happy to answer for.

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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 2780px × 3372px 53.67 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_08_004_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDIG

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