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I hope you won't spend your money foolish;y or needlessly but by no means, hold it so tight as to appear as mean or too selfish. I shall not cut off your suit? and you will not make much use of it this summer and it will do better as it is to make over into some other garment if we should want to - tis late saturday night ad I did not think if it till this minute but I think I shall send you Isaac's linnen jacket for he can't wear it and it will be very useful for you one looks and feels a great deal better Evenings, and any time hen not at work to have some kind of a jacket or coat on. I want you should write whether your work is very hard and linsome? what your company is what kind of a boarding place how many hours you have to work in a day where you go to meeting and everything else about yourself and your situation - whether you have any time for reading and study Isaac boards at Mr. Cochrans they have about 30 scholars G is going to B. tomorrow and must get some provisions but has not ? to get with you must get your pay once a month or so & if we can't get along without must borrow some of yours for live we must as long as we can - unless something extraordinary happens we shall have considerable Oats & Hay to turn in the fall. it is a hard pinch this summer particularly hard for C to have to him help and provide and with nothing to do it with we could hoe along without buying much provisions if we did not have Gilman or any help but I feel very anxious to get the house done it seems if we could not prosper much till we can move down there. I am thinking that you have in thought at least magin'd Charles in thinking him selfish when it is not for himself where that he is looking out and contriving but for the good of the whole - you feel that your have a separate interest & so you have somewhat & I mean you shall have all your own but tis not so much matter where you have none any more than you want to use along. I feel that of we are all well we can all as a family be very comfortably off quite aboveboard even in a few years we shall have a good house and a god favor which will produce something more every year than we shall want to consume. Mother says you can buy linen thread of any color & skeins for a cent & if you get out of thread, must buy some. I wish you would call on Miss De Wolfe some day if you know where she lives. She is a real lady & if I were you, I would call on her. I have sent her a paper this week in return for one which she sent me. I wish you would send papers often, as also letters. My advice to you is to be civil and friendly to Ricker, Furber, Butters, etc. who are there with you, and not live all by yourself, when you have friends & acquaintance all round you. It is getting late. Good bye - Your ever affectionate SisterBe very very careful not to get your hands sawed off Lucyor mutilated in any way. Also forget not to write often. In haste, Lucy.
Title
Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metca..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1844-1850
Place
United States
Subjects
Bowdoin College
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Brothers and sisters
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DuQuoin Coal Company
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Illinois Central Railroad Company
Description
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Summary
Correspondence, writings, diaries, and journals documenting family and rural life, as well as early business correspondence and records, and a few photographs, all pertaining to Isaac Stevens Metcalf and the Metcalf, Furber, and Putnam families. Family correspondence was used to keep all of the branches of the family in touch with each other when family members moved away. There are many instances where multiple family members wrote on one letter to one or more other family members, and some people even wrote "family letters" that were intended to be shared amongst parents, siblings, and the like. Topics of family correspondence tend to be related to religion, daily activities on the farm, weather, and the news of friends and relatives (births, deaths, sicknesses, etc.) Business records of Metcalf's pertain to land ownership, railroad engineering and construction, and running a coal mining business. The mid-19th century business records also document tax payments and some reports including labor and payroll expenses. There are a few drawings and sketches from Metcalf's tenure as division engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad. The first accession of these family papers was a donation of the letters between Charles W. and Albina Rich, given by Grace Leadingham, Charles Rich's granddaughter. This gift was facilitated by Keyes D. Metcalf, 17th child of Isaac Stevens Metcalf.
Biographical/Historical Note
Railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois during the second half of the 19th century. Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 29, 1822. His father, Isaac Metcalf, had married Lucy Heywood in 1810; she died childless in 1820. In March 1821 he married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, the widow of Charles Rich, by whom she had had three children (named Charles, Elizabeth Anna, and Almeida). Isaac was born to Metcalf and Rich, followed by Joseph, Lucy, and Eliab. Isaac Metcalf (father) died in Boston in 1830, and the family relocated to Milo, Maine, where half-brother Charles had purchased a farm. Isaac Stevens Metcalf lived there with his mother and siblings, preparing for college and working on the farm until he entered Bowdoin College as a sophomore in 1844. He graduated there in 1847, having taught school while studying engineering. He surveyed and built railroads in New England until the spring of 1850, when he became a division engineer on the southern section (near Centralia, IL) of the Illinois Central Railroad. Metcalf worked closely with the Chief Engineer, Roswell B. Mason. Metcalf remained on the job until the line was completed to Cairo, IL, in 1855. While in central Illinois, Metcalf purchased land and with his partner Chester A. Keyes laid out the railroad town of Du Quoin, which was officially dedicated on Sept. 20, 1853. On Jul. 5, 1852, he married Antoinette ("Nettie") Brigham Putnam, the daughter of prominent New Hampshire minister John Milton Putnam. The couple had twelve children, three of whom died young. They settled in Elyria, Ohio, in Nov. 1856, to be near Metcalf's half sister, Elizabeth Ann (also known as Ann Elizabeth), and more family joined them within the next ten years. Metcalf and family lived in Elyria for over 41 years, farming and running a flour mill while Isaac Stevens Metcalf maintained business interests in Du Quoin, Illinois (real estate and coal mining). Antoinette died Aug. 14, 1875, and three years later Metcalf married Harriet Howes. That couple had six boys. Harriet Howes died of pneumonia Dec. 7, 1894, and Isaac Stevens Metcalf died Feb. 19, 1898, age 76. A more complete Metcalf genealogy family, focusing on the children of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, is available in the Special Collections Department information files. The genealogy was compiled by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 17th child of Isaac Stevens Metcalf.
Extent
10.8 linear feet (20 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Format
Business records
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Correspondence
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Diaries
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Genealogy
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Invoices
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Manuscripts, American
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Personal narratives
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Records and correspondence
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Sources
Archival Collection Title
Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers
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Midwest Manuscript Collection
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
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Call Number
midwest ms metcalf Box 2 Folder 43
BibID
821787
Size
3064px × 3798px 66.62 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_43_004_003.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FEKG
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