Newberry Library - Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1854, 1856, 1858

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1854, 1856, 1858

Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1854, 1856, 1858

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1854, 1856, 1858

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 only want to tell you one or two of Wilder's sayings - A few nights ago he did not feel very well, and was told he could ask God to make him better Next morning he was about as well as ever - He was asked if he had thanked God for making him well. He looked up with a very pleased face and said "There He did, did'nt He."Night before last - he was walking on the verandah with me, while I wheeled baby to sleep in the carriage - Isaac & Jenny both gone to meeting. He took his thumb out of his mouth, and pointed up, and said "that is the sky, way up there - Are God & good people up there"? Pretty soon he said, "I should'nt dare to die - said it two or three

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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 101

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1754px × 2818px 28.32 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_101_004_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFLA

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