Newberry Library - 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

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Open book Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1850

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, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription 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.

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 2 Folder 43

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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