Newberry Library - DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Lucy M. Furber (sister) (also to Samuel S. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851, 1853

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851, 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 should go about June inviting her to come as soon as she could & stay with me till we start. I should like to have her here with me some weeks with the dear little Mayo. My husband proposes now, to go east early in June to be gone from home three or four weeks, O we think now quite strongly of taking Hattie with us. He feels some hesitation on account of the trouble she will make & the additional expense but there are serious difficulties in the way of leaving her. She is of a disposition & especially of an age requiring more anxiety & careful attention than the younger one, we feel too that the journey may be of great use to her, improve her manners & in many ways have a good influence over her. Oh her account I feel desirous of taking her; she has been away from a very retired home very little I say very returns home because on account of her mother's health the family lived retired. She thinks going east the 'sum bonom' of earthly good every thing food & great, beautiful & excellent is from that wonderful unknown land 'the earth' such is the impression. She is affectionate & a most capable girl but quick tempered & high spirited has been heretofore shielded from correction by her mother, faults concealed from her father but is now under good training & fast improvingI must stop now or defer sending this till

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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 2

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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