Newberry Library - Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

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Open book Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Title Furber, Samuel W. (brother-in-law), Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1856-1858

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1856-1858

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 Bangor Nov 13th 1856Brother IsaacYours of the 8th inst was rec this evening. I was very glad to learn of your safe arrival at Elyria. May much happiness attend you and yours wherever you may be. your Goods I shipped last Monday, put them in care of an Agt of the Western RR here, who said they would be in Elyria this week. You ask if I am decided to leave Bangor? Yes. Perhaps I do worry, but there are various reasons, which to me seem sufficient to advise such a course. In my lumbering operation of 53 & 54 I lost more than all I was worth and all that I have earned since and I feel that I can meet that demand sooner by leaving than by staying in Bangor. I have no cap-

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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 51

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1983px × 3078px 34.96 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_51_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FETU

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