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 Cedar Grove 1850J.M. to I.S.Sept. 14 We reciev'd a letter from you last night. And we will commence a reply which will probably continue to accresce [sic: increase?] under our hands untill we recieve your answer to our last sent 2 or 3 days ago In relation to your difficulties with Messrs Steele, Chase, Crane etc. it will be of no use to say any thing as my remarks will be much behind the time before they can reach you. Howsoever Edward Crane Esq., when I knew him was a good sort of a man I thought, Smart & a good business Man, a fine thing for you to keep the right side of him if you can He probably knows as much as as all the rest of your R.R. folks together: it may be more as yourself call 'em a pack of Fools. He would be worth most as much to you in the long run as your firm friend as all New Hampshire, Dunbarton excepted, I have seen him frequently. Goss & Upham us'd to do a good deal of business with his Firm. My Friend J. R.K. Hayward of Bangor, formerly of Matamascantis, became on the right side of him and is quite a man thereby. If you were properly consulted about it I see no impropriety in putting on another party if need be to expedite business. In that case you should not " too fond to rule alone" "Bear like the Turk no rival near the Throne"It would to be sure be very appropriate to have such party Suspended to your authority, but if they were not I should think you had better put up with it rather than to leave so long as you remain invested with a separate and independant command altho' it be a more limited one than you are entitled to

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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 80

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3189px × 4044px 73.83 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_006_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJ7

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