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 Bangor Dec 1852Lucy and I want very much to see you to tellyou in the most sacred confidence a little bit of teaserknown only to us two and in which we want a littlehelp from you. Lucy and I have begun to make theattempt to write a book whether it progress, get finishedand published is another question, therefore andfor the reasons it is not to be mentioned to a singleperson as yet, and we mention to you in confidenceof your secrecy. We mean it shall be a long story yet atrue one a narrative carried on in the first personsimple and unvarnished. We have chosen a subjectthat in respect is tame and place can be mosteasily disguised and also for affording most eventof interest if we can have just enough to narratethem on, a simple account of your life fromyour childhood to the present time under whollyfictitious names. We have got as far as your returnfrom Aunt Humphrey's giving some account ofthe place and circumstances of the family buthave now got to a stand still because we knowso little about it. Will you please write and sendback by Sam'l sealed (for he and Eliab must knownothing of it) as much as you can have time towrite of what you remember about the saying and doings of grandmother Stevens and Grandfathertoo when you were a little girl also of yourbrothers and sisters: scribbles and incidents of

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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 3037px × 3857px 67.06 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_07_005_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDGX

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