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

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 [top of page was torn]with you.getting...and they seem to trouble him considerable, so that it is harder to take care of him just now. Two teeth are through. He creeps all over the floor, very fast indeed love to scrabble for the door when it is open and sit - close to it and look out at the cows and the chicken, - jabbering and crowing to them the while in baby way. He is delighted if he can get to my work basket and tip it over, thinks it is the finest plaything he can get hold of. He loves dearly to be in the floor and it is so warm now that I do not ear to have him on it. He had on the little warm soft stockings you sent him this morning. We are wanting to see the little ones at Milo. Charlie must be quite an important member of the family. Going to be a Rail Road man is he? Well, perhaps he may be. He seems to be quite a business character. _ I have been reading Gallaudets Scripture Biography. Moses, David etc. They are very full of interest, and make me love, more than Ever, the historical part of the Bible. Moses is one of the most interesting characters of the series. I never thought before how much there was to admire and wonder at in his character

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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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