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

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 Ann. Feb. 12Westfield Feb. 12th /57Dear Sister LucyMy heart was made light, the other eve by a most welcome letter from your and Eliab. It reached me Mond. just a week after the date off I had hardly dared hoped for one until your had received mine. it was very good in you, and did me good I feel that when you are all there, enjoying so much together and I far away, I need to hear from you oftenA kind letter from Lizzie Doe came at the same time,- she was truly kind left nothing undone that she could do to serve me, What ever her faults may be, she is certainly a kind, sincere and self sacrificing friend,- I hope you will write her soon if you have not - She says she does want to leave there- hopes 'Heaven will forgive her restless of spirit,' wishes me to make enquiry for a place for her here - she raised a quill of blood few mornings since; a rapture of a blood vessel occasioned, she thinks, by a terrific stream. At Boston in the evening at Park Street, I suddenly encountered Mary Quincy Wetherell she was just as glad to see me as she used to be at Bangor wanted dreadfully to talk with two or three hours confidentially about her troubles, for as a minister's wife she has had some

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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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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FDBZ

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