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 Llucy, Jan 5, 1853, BangorDunbarton Jan 1888?Bangor Jan. 5 - 1853Dear Brother Isaac?Welcome to Dunbarton! Suppose you will be there tomorrow night - Won't Nettie? be glad? Are we not rejoicing already for her? And yet, do we right? You are not yet there, and we "know not what a day may bring forth"! We will trust, and hope that you may be brought safely and speedily unknown all who love you. Your Telegraphic dispatch, received tonight, made lighter two somewhat heavy hearts, at least. This has been a hard week with the brothers - and this, so much more than they expected, too, comes very opportunely. How soon are we to see you and Nettie? and Mayo? here? Mr Wallace, the little Scotch student?, came in tonight to bring me the Life of the Cheyne?. He brought before Gilfillan's Gallery of Literary Portraits - How I have enjoyed it! Mother and I have wearied? our sides? with shaking some evenings - It seems

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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 2470px × 3138px 44.39 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_41_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEH1

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