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

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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 Hartford Oct. 2nd, 48Dear brother IsaacI think I owe you an apology for so long silence, but I knew Lucy wrote you an account of our journey home, safe arrival &c. and my hands as well as mind have been in full employ ever since: I suppose you have heard by this time, that I have given up any school and left Bangor for a long tour.Several circumstances have led me along, step by step, to this conclusion, and though I have shed many tears at the thought of being a stranger and so far from you all, - we have as a family always enjoyed a great deal in each other and have never been far separated yet I cannot but feel that I am in the right course, Providence has it seems to me, made my way plain. I am not going away to enjoy more, - I look forward to trials, - less of ease less of happiness, except that which comes from the consciousness of doing good, of being in the path of duty.Perhaps I have been too much in a state of repose; convenience, the faculties of the mind - the impulses of the heart, may need to be roused to the performance of their proper work; I have been very happy the last few years particularly, and have been perhaps too much disposed to rest in the gratification of my own feelings and wishes without enough considering that I am not my

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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 14

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3279px × 3933px 73.83 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDN7

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