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

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

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

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1852-1853

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 and providence - to fit for usefulness and happiness- what shall be done for them. Her Lucy is fast merging to the period when she must sustain a character of some kind among others and be doing something for herself; she needs to ' reel against the world' a little, that she may know where she stands and her utter simplicity, give place to some just appreciation of the common affairs of the world she is born into must live in and go through. Yours of Nov. 30th came just after I had written the second to you: It is well perhaps that you have business enough for I think otherwise you would have a very dull and tedious sojourn there at this dreary season when nature almost the sole source of enjoyment left you, is turned from beauty and verdure to bleak desolation. Is it not a prairie region and how many times do you get 'sloughed' in riding your miles over the wind-biting waste? but you speak of woods,-- I should like to see, in the sweet month of June, those lofty trees the luxuriant growth of that fertile soil. I do hope you will not think of staying there long you cannot -- hope to escape it, I mean of course the fever and ague especially as you have already felt its grasp; it is to me a fearful disease because so often shattering the constitution however good, I saw an old man the other evening who said he had been afflicted with it every season except two, for thirty years, even here, he first had it in Buffalo, had not proper treatment by physicians and in consequence has suffered much from it ever since

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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 17

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2888px × 3588px 59.33 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_17_001_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDPL

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