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 will get sick, and he says he has no confidence in the doctors there. Percie was such a dear patient little fellow - how more than ever, if possible, we loved him when he was so sick. Maria is very well and smart - Mother has had a letter from you since she came here, which she wishes me to acknowledge. I want one extremely - please favor me. We had two likenesses of Percie before Anna went away, the best of which she took & which you saw if she went to D.as I hope and suppose she did - the other we intended to change and shall, perhaps, when he gets to look like himself again. I went to see Corry's dreadfully, but I want to see Corry's self more. How does the little fellow & how many teeth has he? Percie was most faithfully vaccinated after all, though it was so long showing it? Did Corry's take at last. I am glad you got so good a carriage - I shall try to have ours fixed with the back wheels alone. You did not say whether Sabra was with you or not - Ellen stays yet, and is an excellent

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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 40

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 2437px × 3162px 44.13 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FEFH

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