Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1856

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 Lucy & Samuel HampdenOct. 18 1850 Oct. 18. I believe - 1850Folks O, dear, I am so tired of expecting & waiting for Nanni to come. Thought besure she would come yesterday. no boat today - she must come tomorrow. I suppose you in particular, Mother, will ridicule me greatly, if not burn me in clergy or effigy or something else, when I tell you "I been sick" and bint got well yet! I suppose I took cold last Monday, but am sure I don't know how or when. Felt rather foolish after washing & all the evening - and Tuesday morning got up with headache, pain in back and limbs, & for that matter all over, jumping pulse, and dysentery to boot - groaned all night with pain in back and limbs like aching fingers where my cold - been lolling on the sofa about half dressed ever since - slept tolerably last night though I feel better today. Is there such a Thing as inflamation of the Diaphragm? I have had much severe pain & sounds right across the pit of my stomach - hurt me to cough terribly and to move "every which way." Samuel has made bread two or three times - capital too - and Jane done all the rest of the week, like a woman - every thing in the world she could do for me. & took care nicely. She is a jewell - has earned cents enough rising at 5 in the morning to get some cunning little presents for Lucy & James, little german silver thimble for Lissie, A.B.C. card for Charlie, besides a shawl pin for Albina, which will be forwarded when Ann goes. If you read serpent for superb this time you must remember that I write in my Cap, head aching. I don't know

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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 23

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2779px × 3593px 57.17 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_23_020_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDTI

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