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 I do not dare to allow myself to think about it, for I do not know what I shall think best to do. Mrs. Hopkins starts for Mass. with her daughter in about a month; I am teaching without her now and shall be alone after two weeks. She expects to return to commence the fall term middle of Sept. I am obliged to stay at any rate until the end of the term (last of Aug.) probably I can stay during the winter & another year if I wish, but I have some annoyances in the family - (not from Mr. or Mrs. H.) I feel very much isolated,- none to share with me my thoughts, feelings or sympathies:- Providence will direct + open my way and make it plain when the time comes. The idea of taking the responsibility of a new school in a new set of circumstances is not pleasant to me in truth I am weary of teaching: I had been engaged you know, and that laboriously, three years steady, before coming here,- now two years more with but ten weeks interruption; longer than ever before without a rest of some months: Some weeks since I went to Chicago, 60 miles south by take, Mr. H. went to attend convention so I went too, partly for the pleasure of the excursion, partly to ascertain about schools there. A young lady who came out with me is teaching a private school there: Makes more than I do, does not teach French or Drawing.-She thinks I could do well to open a school there ,the place is fast increasing- is the centre of a great deal of business having communication by railroad and steam boats with Buffalo and Eastern cities and by canal Illinois,Template:Side of letter Give much love to Eliab tell him I mean to write to him before long.

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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 3084px × 3878px 68.47 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_02_004_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FBZ0

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