Newberry Library - Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook (wife). Scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Title Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf scrapbook, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1838

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1838

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 do wish to do good the little while I yet remain in this county. If God but grant his blessing on my efforts it- is all I need wish.May 17 - The days of another year of my life are numbered and finished. The question returns this day with fever; am I nearer heaven as I am nearer eternity?Nineteen years of life's short journey have fled & What a dream is life and how little how very little do I realize the rapidity with which is passing away. -nineteen years! ((unclear)) In childhoods hours, I viewed this period, as far distant but now that God has spared my life to attain it, it seems but a day, a short lived day.Oh; could I feel that my time had been passed in glorifying my creator, all would be happiness but I have many, many things to regret and to repent of. Would that I could atone for the past but since this cannot be

Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 5 Folder 128

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3306px × 4063px 76.89 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_05_fl_128_019_022.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FHUA

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