Newberry Library - Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1844-1851

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 My Dear Son Milo 16. AprilI receiv'd your letter 2 days since and was as usual very glad I had begun to feel anxious to hear how you got along in your school- am very much gratified to learn that you are so pleasantly situated have such a fine school to- But it is truly amazing? that your school should close with singing when you know so little about it- I suppose you can not tell whether they sing well or notAs to many matters and in regard to your getting any from here I dont know any thing what can be done Tis true" there's property here- but as Sam'l Furbur says the more property a man has in Milo the poorer he is- Tis reckon'd I believe that Farms will not pay any more than 4 pr cent- and- the Taxes in the town are from 5 to 6 pr centIt seems sometimes as if C. did not manage so well as he might or he would not be so perplex'd and bother'd to get along but tis a fact that there are very few men in town' if any that do make a living of it, that have nothing but a farm to depend upon almost all To have some other resource C. always has you know. and does yet talk about leaving here and trying to get a living some where else but I dont see how he can do that either for he could not sell and he has nothing to start with unless he could

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 78

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3226px × 3926px 72.51 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFGV

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