Newberry Library - Furber Family: Furber, Olive (Samuel's sister), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Furber Family: Furber, Olive (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 I wish I could have more favorable accounts of your healthLucy. It requires a good deal of patience for me to be confinedthree or four weeks my health is good now I did not get upfrom my confinement so well as when Helen was born.I have a little half breed girl that helps me a gooddeal altho she tries my patience sometimes. My family is largemost of the time two and three men beside my husband. Tis fortunateperhaps that I have children, and a good deal of work to dofor the moment I have time to think my mothers sickness anddeath are before me what bitter bitter hours they were to usbut death had no terrors for her. She could not talk much.I asked her what we should tell Samuel "Tell Sam the LordJesus" - the rest was inaudible. She breathed her last sweetly as an infant on its mothers breast. It seems as thoI had just begun to know her worth, had just begun to loveher when she left us. She over here and staid three or four daysthree weeks before she died. The last I heard her sing was "Whynot stretch thy wings and fly. To yonder world of joy.Father looks like a shadow I suppose he has writtenyou there is a prospect of his getting the goods. They have writtenyou of course of John's sad accident poor fellow I'm fearful hewill have a stiff elbow.I must beg forgiveness for neglecting towrite you hope you will not take pattern by me, or think it is a lackof love -children bring many cares and works. Mr Haskell wasvery sick the last of August two or three weeks. Helen was sicktwo months with the summer complaint we despaired of her life

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 64

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3009px × 3859px 66.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_64_002_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEZT

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