Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1836, 1839

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1836, 1839

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1836, 1839

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1836, 1839

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 side of letter - rightSister Ann July 28th Boston 1839side of letter - leftBangorJuly 1839Boston July 18th 1839Dear BrotherI received your letter in due season and was happy to learn from it your good health, good spirits and I hurt good progress. it friend starts tomorrow for Bangor, and I improve the opportunity to scribble a few lines in answer to yours, but you must not expect a very long, or a very sensible letter this time, for I have only two hours in which to finish the letter to Mother and this, and, besides, a little accident happened to one of my eyes a day or two since, which makes it a little painful when closely applying myself to writing or reading. We have not heard from Mother since I wrote you, but expect to every day. We are all well, James has had an ill time but is better, Almeda is pretty well now, but cannot walk far; little Lucy is not very well to day, owning to the heat perhaps; sister Lucy enjoys herself very well, has not got much acquainted yet; it seems rather odd to me at first to go to meeting and about, with a sister taller than myself; I suppose 'you have' grown out of my knowledge quite as much as she has: but you are old enough to obtain the growth and stature of a man- a tall man- I like to see a tall man,-but be sure and have your intellectual and moral growth correspond with your physical, and then you will be a man indeed.We had at Sabbath school celebration of the 4th which was very interesting & with which Lucy was exceedingly delighted, particularly the singing which was performed entirely by about a hundred little girls & which was really very fine. Did you read an account of the steamboat excursion of the sabbath schools of New York? The great temperance dinner you have I suppose seen a notice of: it is said to have been the greatest occasion of the kind ever known here. Mr. Whipple and Bush attended it, and James probably would, but he wished

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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 10

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3104px × 3864px 68.66 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_10_003_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDKV

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