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Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1852-1860

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac and Antoinette B.P. Metcalf (wife), 1852-1860, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 I have written one letter which you had not got when you wrote last - You say about my going to Elyria - I should love to go but would it be right - I have been hoping lately that Sam'l will leave Percie with me at Milo this coming summer - If he will consent to that -& then I could go to Elyria & take him with me in the fall i.e. if I am alive & well it would just suit me - & Eliab says he will go with me in the fall - but Sam'l says he knows he wont - & it seems to me that he cant March 1st 1857 Seventy years - How short they seem - Seventy years I have been the constant recipient of innumerable blessings! & what have I rendered - what but sin & folly O the love of God - the unspeakable riches of his mercy His long suffering & tender mercy - Praise - Praise Eternal glory to his Name 3rd I thought to have finished this before now but I waited supposing that I could inform you of the coming of another little responsibility by this time Eliab has been waiting & dare not go (as he wants to very much) to Boston

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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 85

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2818px × 3663px 59.10 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_85_004_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGBD

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