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 Ann. June 10 MMWestfield June 10th /51Dear Sister LucyIsaac left yester eve in the stage for Erie, thence to take boat for Cleveland. He staid with me three days much to my comfort. arriving Frid eve, so I had all day Sat. as well as Sunday to see him: he was made very welcome by the family- the horse and buggy offered few a ride about town, so we had the pleasure of a circuit of six or seven miles: It was too windy for the boat, to come in Mond. morn. so he waiting till the evening stage. he intends to go on the Chicago and seek a situation on the new road to be projected in Illinois, unless he finds a chance to put him about Cleveland,- he feels himself so safe on the pains of health, that I fear he will not take precautions and so catch fever and ague. He might have stopped at Albany this summer, had he been a day or two earlier there. I imagine he feels a little disheartened: he seemed not exactly sad, but silent, not so much animation and buoyancy as usual; perhaps, because among strangers,- he is not communicative enough of his feelings: he has an excess of that shrinking sensitiveness of which we all have a doubt portion. Is it not strange that he is so reserved to his own folks on the subject of his own particular matters, that is, if the affair settled to his satisfaction. What do you think about it?Your letter reached me about a fortnight since..[right side of letter]please write soon dear Sister and Samuel too. I want to know some particulars about his business as well as other things

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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 2949px × 3764px 63.55 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_02_010_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDCB

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