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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 She does most of her cooking herself i.e. she attends to & directs it all & labors vigorously about cakes & pies etc. Besides which she is giving lessons in French to Miss Woodbury & Hattie. Mrs. Woodbury has been here you know since last August she has lately commenced a school one of the public schools and boards here. She has rather an uncouth figure short & thick but a person of a fine mind very pleasant & agreeable. Hattie attend the high school She has improv'd very much since I saw her. There are some things disagreeable in her manners now but I think she will make eventually a very fine character. The Doctor seems to be as happy as a man need wish to be. Libby is a little laughing frolicsome affectionate girl but greatly afflicted with weak eyes has been kept from school more than a year because of her eyes

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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 84

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2309px × 3608px 47.70 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_84_001_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FG9C

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