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 We are in daily expectation of having news, from Milo. Please write it as soon as convenient. Anne and I went up to Glenburn to see Lizzie Doe one afternoon last week - we talked of keeping right on up to Milo. I have decided that I shall have no time to work on rug carpets this winter, so I am going to send what rags I have already served by the first opportunity, and I wish you would engage Mrs. Sargent to weave them. They will make two or three "strips," which will be convenient for various purposes, - so the store of rags you sent me, you had better take back again & make into a "hit or miss" rug, I guess. Samuel bought a dozen real pretty tea knives at auction for $2.00, almost as good as new, such as they ask $5.00 for. Please inform me if you can how much and what kind of stuff I had better get for warp. I have 10 lbs of rags. Samuel & Eliab have each taken a pair of your gloves. The rest Samuel thinks he can dispose of. I took one pr of stockings for Jane. Anne took the other. Such will not sell here. Please do write often. We are worried because you have no good stove in your room. Afraid you are not comfortable. If any of you have any more biddies' wings than you want to use, please save me a few. In haste. good byeLucy.

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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 25

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2936px × 3669px 61.67 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_25_016_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDWT

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