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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1845

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1845

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 but 15/ per week, whereof Mr. Walker engaged me for 3.00 and said I could get board for 1.00 & I do pay 7/6 . The Committee have not visited me yet & I fear when they do come & find how the District feel about the wages, they will be unwilling to give so much. Well I thought at first considering all the untoward circumstances I had better go home again, but Mr. Sherburne rather advised me to stay & bustled round & got the house fixed etc. I felt very bad for a day or two, a great deal worse than I need to, but I could'nt help it. Dudley's folks did actually insult me, & have continued to do so ever since I have been here. Common politeness requires them to call on me, even if I had been a perfect stranger., & certainly, as you boarded there, they ought to make some advance towards getting acquainted, or to say the least, ought not to have repulsed me when I made advances. But instead of that, they insulted me & hurt my feelings, a friendless & forlorn stranger. in their own house & since then I have been there three Sabbaths at meeting & they have never once spoken to me. I cannot imagine the reason of such unkind rudeness, but suppose there must be some grudge on your account some way. I don't know but they are so verdant that they don't know what civility is, not to mention politeness. Mr. Sherburne says Dudley's folks were ever so good & there was nobody like the master till you were gone, & then they were the first to express dissatisfaction & mention every little fault. From all I can gather I judge that you were hardly strict enough in school & that on that account or some other, people made up a sight of lies about you. Sam Bodge says it was a good school & the scholars leaned well, the only fault he found was, that you had no instrument wherewith to castigate the young'uns. Mr. More said his children never learnt better, but that there was a lack of order. Well I staid at Mr. Sherborne's from Thurs. morn till Sunday, when I came to Moses Wiley's to board. They live in the new house next the schoolhouse, where Philip Randall lived last winter. Wiley boarded his wife at Mr. Clark's last Winter. I have to pay 7/6 per week for board and do my own washing. It is too bad altogether, but I could'nt help it. Mr. Wiley is the quaint fellow that ever was unless we except Sam. Bodge. Pretty clever, I guess, but not remarkable for refinement, either of mind or manner. Mrs. W. is an easy, sozzling sort of a woman

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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 31

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2828px × 3459px 56.01 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_31_004_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE40

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