Newberry Library - Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Title Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1846-1856

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 as is his wont, invited them to come right here. He is to preach at our church four Sabbaths, during Prof. Shepard's absence, & the contributors he would look to provide a boarding place are out of town, so you see how we "entertain strangers". He finds it difficult to get a boarding place, & I think very likely they will stay here the three weeks. Mrs. Harlow invited them quite cordially to a to spend two or three days with them, but in her smooth way let them know very plainly that they mustn't stay all the time. It would seem rather natural, as he was in the family for about ten years that he should be asked to make a home there now. They are extremely pleasant people Mrs. P. another Mrs. Wm. Bennett, only younger and better looking - she has been a teacher of Seminaries. She is lively and very witty, runs about

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 41

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2110px × 3157px 38.15 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_013_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEIK

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