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

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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 and come back with him - just to stay one or two nights. Samuel was going to Hampden on business this P.M. so I rode down to Mr Crosby's. They hear about once a week from William and Rufus. Their address is Atchison, Kansas Territory. They have bought a claim, built a house and store, got their spring crops inward when William wrote last, he was just going to St. Louis to buy goods, they seem to be doing well, but their parents are intensely anxious about them, as is very natural. William is ready to leave & intending to do so I believe so soon as engineering business can be obtained. They are only ten miles from Sarah Parker in Misouri, I have just written to Theo's wife, so I don't know as I have any message to send to the Minn. brethren, but I wish you would pick up some nice little curiosities now & then in your travels. May our Father have you in his keeping through all your journeyings, my

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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 2129px × 3185px 38.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_015_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEIV

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