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 Tuesday Evening Oct 3 1848Brother Isaac You will pardon me for not writing you before this. I might give many excuses but as none of them would satisfy me I shall forbear to make them. My business this season affords but little variety the same routine of cares and vexations with close confinement I find to be more fatiguing than physical labor with less care, but I do that which will pay the biggest dollars for then you know are what we are all seeking afterFriday Eve 6th Oct Guess you will think it takes me a long while to write, since I began we have rec'd a letter sister Ann She is at times very decidedly homesick if she had not so fully actermined upon her course she would even now come back I think, she never felt what it was to go from all friends untill after she left us, I think, however should her health be good that she may received much benefit from her tour. We also rec'd a letter from Olive last Eve from Lowell, she started from there the 4th inst. she goes in company with James Purinson. I hope when these sisters of our get home again they will be better contented to stop with us . And now brother & if you ever wish to enjoy yourself get married as soon as you get ready but do not wait too long to get ready, I shall insist upon being competent to advise you in this matter, I've no doubt but that you really enjoyed your self much now see a great deal of very pleasant and entertaining

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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 34

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FE7K

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