Newberry Library - 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 It requires some of Mr. C.W. Rich's Judgment to get along with all our disadvantages & difficulties - we have too many sheep, or the farm is too big. It is very favorable for us that this dreadful Storm did not come in the terrible cold weather. I have felt very anxious ever since I cam home that there should be some way to seperate the sheep by making another yard & shed so that they could be fed with corn but we couldn't accomplish it "no how,, There seems so many difficulties in prospect like poor fences, lack of good farming tools - lack of judgment, discretion, & other qualities in a kind man if we can get one that you had better consider well whether it will be best for you on the whole to stay so late as you were intending. But you of course know pretty much how things are here. And how you are situated there. If you should stay there a little too long and get the "Shakes,, you might have? it all your life long. You are apt you know, when you begin any piece of work to feel such a strong inclination to finish, that you are not willing to leave it, when you know there are other things more necessary to be done - you must guard against that in making up your conclusions about coming homeTis Monday afternoon - there has no person pass'd here since last Thursday, & by the appearance of the road I should think they couldn't for a week to come - probably we shall all feel better when this wind ceases and the warm weather come.Mr. Medar has not got back- we dont know whether he will - if he does or we get any body else, we will write again. A. sometimes gets overburdened with care - tis hard for her if she could only throw it off, as it seems as if I could, - but she cant, she will no?ng? greatly by spells. I have to be all the time telling her how much better off she is than any body else about here.[left-hand side] March 29th we had a letter from Anna, she says you have not written to her any hardly

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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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 2656px × 3179px 48.35 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_92_035_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGKJ

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