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 Mother, Lucy BangorJan 28Jonesboro, Feb 21. 1852 Bangor Jan 28. 1852Dear Brother IssacAfter waiting and worrying an anxious while, we received you last letter, dated Dec 23 a few days since. We had begun to fear that all sorts of evils had lighted? on you, and we now are thinking that it is high time for us to hear from you again. It was almost a month between your last and the previous one we think these must have been on lost.It is a bright, beautiful day, though rather cold, I believe. People say we have had a very severe winter continued cold weather and an unusual number of severe storms. I can say very little about it from experience, as I have kept housed most of the time. Samuel came home a week ago, after a fortnight absence. went away again last Monday to be gone three weeks. This route is nearly the same as last winter, I believe. I am hoping to go to Milo while he is out next time if he can spare time. My health is improving fast I think. I have been steadily growing better, without having any pull backs, for several weeks. Last sabbath P.M. I went to meeting at Hammond St. for the first time. I got pretty tired, but just as well next morning, as you will see when I tell you that I washed the dished, trimmed the camps, made my bed, swept and dusted the bedroom & sitting room, polished the stone, and washed, in one water, seven or eight sizable articles. Today I have done about half the ironing and

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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 38

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2941px × 3723px 62.69 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_38_002_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEAY

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