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 some parts of it fine. The other is good, very, but I like not that style of Poetry so well as some. In the eighth line of the last stanza, I would inquire if there might not be a better arrangement than to make two syllables of "yours"? I would like to keep these very much, but as you are so urgent, will send them back. I should transcribe them, but my shoulder is so lame I cannot write so long. This ink has been frozen and is very pale - hope it will grow blacker. Your last dated Jan. 6 - 1847 was rec'd last evening. I am afraid you don't sleep enough, think too much, and thereby get nervous. You admonish & lecture me from time to time about cultivating correct judgments - "toughening my feelings" etc. etc. (which advice is very good & for which I am much obliged) and now permit me to return it in part to you! I say that under deprivation of "nature's sweet restorer," incipient worryment, cogitation & anxiety of mind, about business, friends, or anything else must (in any of us Metcalfs, at any rate) create derangement in the nervous system which derangement causes, not only incorrect judgment in some case, but an overstrained, highly wrought view of every thing - especially the dark side of every thing. You suppose perhaps, that my situation and prospects lead me to give too bright an aspect to affairs, to look on the future as all calm and sunlight. I do not. I try to and think I do, see things somewhat in the light of common sense. You think and no doubt think truly, that I have, as yet, had few trials, and know little of the troublous things of life. It is true. I know it is; yet the feeling of entire dependence upon somebody for everything I have

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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 44

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2900px × 3689px 61.25 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_44_007_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FELK

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