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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 after Lizzie had been here a day or two. She staid two weeks enjoying herself finely, making herself as agreeable to everyone to the utmost of her powers which you know are not contemptible: she intended staying but three days at first, but Mrs. Rumsey, the mother started on her journey to Vermont, the day after she arrived, Mariette was lonely wanted her company, urged her to stay:- she made herself very familiar, helped some, took quite any interest in all the family read loud to some, was quite gay, walked, rode, and visited once: Mariette invited company one afternoon, Sat when there was no school we all rode four or five miles up up the creek, to a place called 'Camel back': a wild romantic spot, exceeding very far, in beauty and splendeur, any thing in nature I had before seen: the creek is formed into a sort of oblong circular basin, in width thirty or forty rods, steep banks, on the side we approach, + a narrow irregular ridge like the humps of the camel extends almost across, becoming just a narrow passage for the stream on the opposite side, where a perpendicular ledge rises, 250 feet! in some part bare, in some, clothed with vegetation. the bank on which we stood, must be more than 100 feet for above the stream the tops of large forest trees were 40 or 50 feet below down in the creek basin. I was well nigh entranced with the view, and would gladly have gazed upon it half a day:- woods all around every variety of tins and foliage: there is another similar

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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

Size 2923px × 3790px 63.42 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_02_010_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDCC

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