Newberry Library - Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac, Joseph, and Eliab Metcalf (AMSRM's sons), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835, 1845, 1848

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Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac, Joseph, and Eliab Metcalf (AMSRM's sons), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835, 1845, 1848

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1835, 1845, 1848

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 Boston Aug 1835My dear little boys I suppose you have been wishing for a letter from me but not more than I have wish'd to hear from you. I wantto see you all very much there is scarcely an hour passes but I am thinkingof you - Do try to be good boys do your duty be kind and love one another -If you have some trials and vexations and if you haveto work hard do try with all your might to be cheerful and goodnatur'd all the while - Being fretful and worryin know makesyourselves and every one about you unhappy and does no good at all.I want you should tell Charles all your little troubles and difficultyall you feel and think he will give you good advice and will indulgeyour wants as far as is best tis likely - I can hardly enjoysome of the time I am so much afraid that my dear little Eliabwill grow a naughty boy by going to school without any Brothers or Sisters with him to give him good advise & no mother at home to askhim all what was done at school and tell him what was right andwhat was not - but I hope you will all be faithful to one another andwatch over and pray for each other that you may be kept inthe path of wisdom - and O may our almighty Father and friendkeep you from all evil especially from sin the greatest of all evil.It has been very warm weather here 25 July (Mayo's birthday)the thermometer stood at 93 in the shade I have felt tolerably wellever since I've been here but I am not so fleshy nor so strong as Iam usually and Lucy has grown poor and pale has had very littleappetite is not able to do much beside go to school - Ann hasgiven up her school in Allen Street because it was all smallscholars and was so fatiguing & her rent so high that she didn'tgain much she has commenced another school for youngLadies at No 17 Tremont St. price of tuition 4 to 10 dollarsand has a prospect of doing pretty well by & by - James is alltaken up with the antislavery affair there is a great deal ofexcitement upon that subject but I suppose you learn morefrom the newspapers about it than I can tell you there is a greatexcitement about Popery also I have understood that there are

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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 86

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3470px × 4303px 85.48 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_86_001_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGCF

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