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 Thaxter, the 2nd instant - rather a sudden affair. They are going to live here. Sarah Furber gave me a pretty copy of Mrs. Sigourney's poems, and got baby a beautiful pap spoon with his name and her own on it. He was four months old last Friday and weighed eighteen pounds a great heavy fellow to handle about. We did intend to have him christened last sabbath but Mr. Shepard was absent - shall carry him as soon as he returns. He is a great frolicker - laughs out loud a good deal - cries for the tea-cup when I have done feeding him with catnip tea! I have got a little willow chaise for him, with two wheels, light and easy. Lissie wheels him about a good deal. Mother charged me to write to you not to draw your baby out doors, or any where except in a very smooth place till he can sit up. She says it injures them to be jolted when lying down. I don't draw mine out doors at all yet. I have written just as fast as I could spring - don't hardly know what I have said & what not. Ought to be making attire for Liz this moment. Mrs. Griffith has gone. I have now Isabel Frost, William Frost

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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 39

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FEDP

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