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 Joseph and I have been having a discussion by letter upon aristocracy, in which I suppose he thinks I am worsted because I cannot have time to answer his last. Eliab wrote that Boynton the fellow whose place Joseph hopes he got- leaves to day and that Goss & Upham are afraid Joseph will not be able to keep the books after he's gone: it is unfortunate that his employers do not know any about the business themselves. Todd expresses the idea that a watchful conscientiousness is the foundation of a firm, decisive character.'Conscience is a motive which can be cultivated til it calls every energy, every susceptibility, every faculty of the soul into constant, vigorous, powerful action?If I had a little more time I dare say I should find something else to scribble about, but Mary and I are just going not only to the mills, but to mill- to carry a letter and bundle to go to Lucy and some letters to put in the mail.

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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 11

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3056px × 2522px 44.13 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_11_005_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDLL

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