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

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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 Milo July 18th 1842.Dear Isaac We received your letter dated July 4th on Thursday the 14th of July. The lines were few and far between I thought. It did not look as brother Isaac's letters to home generally do, it seems to me. We will receive it, however on the supposition that you were so sleepy that you had but a few thoughts, as I doubt not you are a great part of the time nowadays, notwithstanding some of your boasting speeches in time past, with regard to your triumphs over Morphus. I am afraid you will go without sleep so much that you will always suffer for it, and be a sleep dull-eyed looking fellow, if you are not one in reality. Why don't you ask Mrs. Cutter to let you have a room down stairs when the heat would not trouble you so bad. You might use it days, if they do want it nights. I suppose the folks at Dover that you wanted to see most, were Charles, Joseph, Eliab and I. We some expected to see you there. Mr. French and sisters were there from Exeter; Charles fixed two seats into the waggon & went with both horses. Arnold Sargent & Sarah Jameson were married in the morning by Mr. Fop. Naomi & Theodore went together, in company with us/ Mr. Sanborn of Levant delivered a very good Oration, (so they all said.) I did not hear the whole of it, as Mr. S. stood on the roof of a house, and the congregation assembled round him on the ground, and I could not stand out then but a short time. It was said that 3 or 4 thousand partook of the Coulition dinner, as they called it, (25 cents a ticket) We all took dinner out doors with them, but were sorry we did, for it was a miserable mess, the whole of it, hardly fit to eat, and not near enough of that. A shower came up just as we had finished our report and I was obliged to flee to the house, so I did not hear the toasts, which I suppose were the best part of the whole. The boys said the first one, (just as they had eat up all there was & there was not a piece to be had) was[left-hand side]Little Lucy & James eat some green currents Saturday & have not been very well since.The rest of us are all well as usual. Write soon

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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 30

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2970px × 3629px 61.71 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_30_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FE2M

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