Newberry Library - Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

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Open book Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Title Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Joseph M. Metcalf (brother) (also from Eliab Metcalf, brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845-1850

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1845-1850

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 charge you & Joseph too to leave your business there a week at least in themonth of July, tis your duty so to do, for the preservation of your health. Send me my Son when you have opportunity a half lb of good green tea - and doEliab write to me tis a long long time since I have had a letter from you it isjust as much gratification to me now to know all what you do and thinkand feel as it ever was - but you'll never know how much that is unless youshould live to have "offspring" of your own. Charles has got 2 acres of corn planted just coming up grass looks very wellI haven't heard anything said about the wheat & oats. We have got some ground nuts planted in the garden - Some few fruit treesset out this spring but no front yard fence made yet. I told Isaac that if I could get near what his worth I would sell the beauty line back Cowwhen she has calved which will be perhaps in a month andsend him the money if we couldn't make out some without, will it sell wellor will it be too late in the season do you guess.writing upside down:Joseph - Charles now wants to come to some Settlement or arrangement about the propertywants I should propose how & what I want he should propose something but he says wont__So what shall we do__ He is a poor "critter" as he says he has brought up a family of children(and they ten times better off than he is) Spent the best of his life got to be an old man and no betteroff than 15 years ago nor much prospect of being What should you consider the whole farm here worth or what do you think he ought to give for mypart of it __ I have told you his side of the story but you know it all and all the circumstances about ityou and Eliab think it over and say what to do will you __I have just recd a letter from Isaac which I supposeexpresses your mind Somewhat_but I dont know what will be doneI have just been sending a little about the west The Ladies Society for Education till I think if Lucy enjoyedreal good health I should think (hard as it would be for me) I should think that it was her duty to offer her servises

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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 88

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3418px × 4444px 86.95 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_88_001_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FGDH

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