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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User-Contributed Transcription 17th Feb 1848Very Dear Son I regret some things I wrote in my last letter (we dont always feel alike, besidesdid not mean to be taken so much in earnest & you know I alwaysexpress myself too strongly __ I think that I at least do notmuch misunderstand you - can sympathize (as Albina says, withyou in regard to being misunderstood and also in regardto unsociableness if that is the right word for it I rather think itis not - I have often (tho' not quite as much lately as years ago), stay'daway out of the room when I had company as long at a time as it would do to just because I was asham'd and mortified that I couldn'tbear my part in conversation. Anybody who can write like you cannot plead inability to converse. But there are always some personswith whom I could be perfectly free and sociable - I think I myself was in fault & have tried to get the better of it - Still & believewith you that what is call'd social intercourse is not always enjoymentI regret because my letter made you sad -- " I did have in view notso much to teach, (tis too late to use that word I need to be taught as you)to be happy an to try to make others so. - I take the liberty to doubt whether the best way for you to make others happy isto keep out of their way - Do you wish to have your friend allkeep out of your way - Are there not benefits in social gatherings -Why were the Jews to Congregate together three timea year. I am much the most likely not to be understood because havenot the use of language wherewith to express my poor confusd ideas __ you have very clear ideas very few persons canexpress themselves better in writing - If your mind is like a richmine is it not your duty to fetch it out for the use of your fellowcreatures - Well whatever else we do may we at last find a seatin that Great assembly where mind meets mind without a clog or cloud between.

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

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

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 86

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3477px × 4399px 87.56 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_86_004_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGD2

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