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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister), 1842, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister), 1842, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 for this, and several other reasons which I will name, I think it not best to go home until the end of the term, even supposing this would reach you in season, which it will probably will not. Next Sabbath is communion, and I was absent from the last and do'nt want to be away this time. -- it would make a great deal of trouble which is hardly worth while for so short a time and there would be danger of blocking stormy or uncomfortable weather to get back, I have had a severe cold for about a fortnight, with a little touch of the phlebitis; but it is better now: But my principal reason for not coming home now, is, that I think more and more, that I shall not keep this school after this term: I do not feel any interest hardly in it, it is tedious business: schoolteaching is always a thankless office, and it seems to me, in my case peculiarly so, I do'nt feel, nor can'st work myself into any ambition to be a famous teacher, to raise the character of schools, to find out and adopt the best methods of teaching etc etc: as a teacher should in order to be popular, or indeed useful in his vocation, so I think I had better retire from public life into the shades of obscurity, and give place to some youthful and ambitious competitor, who will strain every nerve to win fame and a great name: my school is not just such a one as I want if I still continue teaching all the time: it is so near Mr Littlefield's in every sense of the word so as to be in every thing cast into the shade, and get no credit for the little good I do: Mr. L. visited my school the day before Thanksgiving (he gave his scholars that day) the most unfavorable time he could have chosen, many of the best scholars were absent - the room was dirty, because several scholars

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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 1

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3016px × 3770px 65.10 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_01_003_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDBF

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