Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Antoinette B. P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1853, 1860

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853, 1860

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 is quite in earnest about coming��; he offers about three hundred for it. Monday morn. Heard Mr Ames the free will Baptist yesterday. I was quite disappointed in him he appeared to me much superior to Mr Follet. he is quite animated and agreeable in manner and had more thoughts, more earnest power in his sermon than in all I have heard of Mr Follet. the black man spoke P. M. on our system of slavery contrasted with the Hebrews; now then rambling and ranting but pretty good. the hall was crowed to overflowing. It is rainy again today with wind and storm like autumn blasts, the sky looks cold, the foliage gray and sad and and wet, wet is every where. Mond eve Just received your letter for which many thanks dear sister. I am

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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 9

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2585px × 3212px 47.54 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_09_001_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDJQ

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