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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857
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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Charles W. and/or Albina Rich (half brother and CWR's wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1853-1857 
Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date 1853-1857 
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 a little rag & put one end in its mouth & lay the other in a teaspoon of milk & water & she sucks it out give her one teaspoonful once an hour it appears to be well only so feeble cold & lifeless that is a great care night & day to watch it & keep it warm Lucy is so patient & uncomplaining. I have never heard one murmuring word thro' all her dreadful suffering. Eliabs family are gone down river for their health Mallie & baby were unwell. Mallie writes in a letter to me that they should much rather be at Milo with you - & asks me if it would be too hard for Albina if they should take Ellen the Irish girl with them says she dare not take the baby home till the sickly season is over - she wrote to Eliab to know what he thought of the plan says that Hattie likes Albina & wants to go that they shouldn't be lonely there etc. write to me monday what you think about it I must not stop to writing moreThursday Aug. 14 
Transcription Status Needs review
Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative. 
Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection
Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record
Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 4 Folder 92 
BibID 821787
Rights Status No Copyright - United States
Contributing Institution Newberry Library
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IIIF Resource Type Canvas 
Size 1850px × 2831px     30.00 MB 
Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_92_030_004.tif 
Unique Identifier NL11FGK0 
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