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Furber Family: Furber, Mehitable ("Bell") (Samuel's sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Furber Family: Furber, Mehitable ("Bell") (Samuel's sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 Sunday night, Oct 6th . 1850

Dear Sis Lucy.
Feeling "sort-o-lonesome" tonight. thought
I would scribble a little to you. Somehow I seem to long
for the society of brother + sisters tonight more than
usual. I want somebody to talk to. It was rainy this
morning so I did not go to meeting. Mr [[?]]
Suppose there will be no preaching next Sunday unless
our new minister comes about which there still seems
to be some doubt. There is some talk of our boarding
them if he comes, but I don't want them a bit-especially
his wife. we have'nt any conveinences for boarders in
the first place, and then I hate to have a woman round
I think I have read somewhere that one should never
write anything in a letter that one was not perfectly willing
for everybody to see but I think it is a rule not often
followed at least by me

I have been very busy ever since
my school closed and suppose I shall be as long as we
stay here. have been preparing stocking yarn making
a rug sewing rags quilting and knitting jacket. I finished
mine last week - is is very pretty sets as slick as a mitten
I shall knit yours this week if nothing happens, am afraid
I shall not get it the right dimensions dont know at

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 63

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3043px × 3829px 66.71 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_63_004_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEZ5

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