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 Bangor Nov. 16. 1851 Nov. 16 - 1851.Dear Mother It is Monday morning just after breakfast, and just light enough for me to see to write. Frances is bustling about, sweeping, making beds etc. preparatory to going to washing. Samuel has gone to surveying. Mr. Tebbits is over at work on the "Pendle-pant's" house. Three good surveyors are "out of the market" - (one gone to selling rum - the only licensed rumseller in Bangor) one moved to Boston, and one sick, so there is a great demand for surveyors, now just as the river is shutting up, and everybody is in a hurry to get their lumber surveyed and the vessels sent off. Divers people are after Samuel. The surveyor general is very anxious for Samuel to take hold and help this fall, but won't give him a commission for another year. I tell him I would'nt do a thing now in the coldest most uncomfortable part of the whole season, unless he would let one survey next year. Samuel says he could probably make six or seven dollars a day till the river freezes. So he surveys some, and stays at the mill some. Well I am looking to see Mother, Jane and Charlie this week. What a time! Don't disappoint me now, will you? Am also expecting a letter from Eliab. In regard tp Butter. I suppose you may send us as much as you want to more or less! Samuel says we shall want fifty pounds of you want to spare it. I don't know - I suppose

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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 24

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2895px × 3642px 60.36 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_24_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDV1

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