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Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1861-1866

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Open book Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1861-1866

Title Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1861-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1861-1866

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 well. He is away from home a good deal on account of his Provost Marshall duties and his business as N?.S. Assessor, Our family is well except myself who have been laid up for two weeks with a lame back and am still unable to do anything. Hoping this will find you all in good health. I am dear unclear with much respect.Yours Truly.Rob't WatsonDear Mrs. Metcalf, I ought long ago to have acknowledged letters of sympathy from yourself and mother, but have had little leisure this season in consequence of having no help in the house that I find it hard to get time to write many letters, but we often think and speak of you remembering how happy the children were at your house, The winter here thus far has been very cold. I think we never had so much very cold weather so early in the winter. Minnie walks more than a mile to school, She has gone frequently when the mercury ranged from twenty to twenty-five below zero. Little Isabel seems quite well most of the time though she has occasional spells of violent beating of the heart which gives us some uneasiness. We don't know whether Olive's disease commenced in that way but think there must have been something wrong about her a long time before we were aware of it.

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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 53

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FEVL

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