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 rest feeling hard because you stay here so much - and if you would enjoy yourself any better in the country than here, the coming summer, by all means stay there. Your own comfort & happiness is the thing for you to attend to in preference to anything else, unless in case of sickness in the family, - then I suppose whoever was sick, would feel as of they must have you. I did want you should stay longer at Almeda's on her account. As for Lizzie, if Almeda is willing to let her come, I should like to have her - if I find she makes too much work, I can but send her home again - should like to try it, at least. Percy grows less & less trouble, but when it gets a little warmer weather I shall want him out doors a good deal and Lizzie can care for him then. I will do as well for her as my time & strength will allow; if you conclude to come back too, you will help train her in the way she should go! As for yourself, do please consider which place you had rather be in during the summer & act accordingly, if it is to go from one to the

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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 1912px × 3038px 33.27 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_27_002_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE0I

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