Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1851

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 How are your sabbaths spent? You have not spoken of that day. I concluded you usually spend them either in Brattleborough or Northfield if at the latter, I suppose you go with the small and rather despised flock, of what we consider real Christians, - great watchfulness is necessary for you as well as all others to keep in the way and not turn aside in any way yielding to temptation. It seems to me it would not be wrong for you to spend part of a sabbath with our cousin Mrs. Dickinson - she is as nearly related to you as any one there - you would enjoy her conversations she would take much interest and you, and she has been so intimate with our family - spending months with mother when quite young that I think you owe it to her as well as yourself to become acquainted with her. I wish you to remember me with much affection to cousins Joseph and Hannah and Maria when you see her and all other friends - Mrs. Dickinson in particular. I have forgotten whether in my last, I mentioned that Mr. Pomroy had commenced a cause of lectures to young men on modern infidelity: he has given four, the closing one last sabbath eve, they drew very crowded congregations and have caused much excitement, because connected with the Lyceum here. In his first, he said that there is here a 'clique of men who are trying to bring in, pour in, sift in, thrust in, as much infidelity upon this community as they cleverly care'. He changed it when the managers of the Lyceum, from information from one not connected with any Orthodox society ' who had sagacity enough to see what was in the wind', - he was understood to implicate the meeting for chair of managers, consisting of Gov. Kent, and nine others: this raised a great breeze, the dailies came out, the opposers were chuckling at the thought that Mr. Pomroy had got himself in to difficulty by assailing private character & motives, Mr Walker came out strong against him and in defense of the Lyceum, but Mr Pomroy in his second lecture explained wherein he was misunderstood, wherein he had been misinformed, reiterated his charge of infidelity when the 'clique' in fact conceded nothing but came off quite triumphant in the knots of men, who after the first lecture half gathered, in Smith Bugbee's stores etc. etc. and talked so loud, were quite whist? after to ?[right-hand side] Joseph was in the schoolroom to day and read me some valuable thoughts, which if I had time and space and could do them justice, I would write. One idea was the tendency of correspondence is to deteriorate unless special efforts are made on both side to originate racy thoughts and striking ideas.[left-hand side]The managers of the Lyceum are Abram Sanborn, br? Jordan and another irreligionist that I do not recollect.

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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 13

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3226px × 3919px 72.38 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDMR

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