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

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 Dear Mother Here I am sitting up in my pillowed & blanketed chair yet. I hardly know whether to tell you I have been getting better or worse the past week. I think perhaps I have taken a little cold some way. Samuel is going to see the Dr. Mc tonight. My ravenous appetite has taken wings, and I "hant got nothing to eat." Sometimes I think I shall be a weak sister & go into consumption & then I think I shant, which last conclusion is probably the most reasonable. I am not low spirited and I don't think I'm spleeny. I guess I shall go to see Mother as soon as I get well enough. Almeda is just as good as the squash pies & custard & all the good things she makes. I am so weak is the principal trouble- bating? my cough. Lucy wishes you to send Fitch's book by Ann - you see she is too weak to write I think she is not quite as well as when Ann went when the Dr. was here he thought the air would do her good but she has not yet been out. The air has come in too much through the paper over head when the wind blew hard and so she has taken a cold but she has been careful and I hope she will get over it but she coughs a some and we are going to see the Dr.

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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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Size 2806px × 3572px 57.39 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FDTN

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