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 only I could'nt help worrying all the while of eating them about your poor bended backs in the heat and among the flies. O, they were so nice. I picked a nice boquet of the last roses of summer and sent don to Mallie tonight, with such other flowers as the garden afford. O, Mother I wish you could see our garden - it never looked half so well before. In my department there is hardly a weed, big or little to be found. I do "dig about and dung" things unweariedly and they reward me for my pains. We have got a gutter put up by the shed, the ground enriched, and tonight Samuel and I put out the grape vines. There were seven or eight fine sprouts. My " queen of the prairie" that I tho't so much of, proves to be a "Baltimore Belle" - a very delicate and handsome rose, but not so high a runner nor so rich a rose as the other.

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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 27

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2032px × 3071px 35.74 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_009_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE1A

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