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 the last to be sure does not make great pretentions as the author died at 21, and as the productions of a boy they are really great and good. If it has not already been done Some competent person had better at once set about writing a Substitute for Smellie. It is sometime since I read a book in which I found so much new & valuable to me as in Bancroft hadn't you better read it? Prescotts Mexico & Peru & Waverly 3 Vols are in the Library and I propose to read them We did not contemplate sending this letter for some time but it is found to contain 7 distinct propositions or ideas which is suppos'd to be much more than an average number so we conclude to remit it fourthwith[left-hand side] we sent a letter last week if you are very busy you'll hardly find time to read them allMother & JosephMilo MaineSept. 14 1850 17

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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 3204px × 4006px 73.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_80_006_004.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFJM

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