Newberry Library - Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Open book Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Title Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam (wife), to Isaac S. Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 about three weeks. She endured the journey & the visiting very well, and thinks she has gained some strength. The riding has fatigued her so she does not feel very bright this evening. She says she is glad to get home, and we are all most certainly glad to have her. I only wish you were here too, to help us be happy. How I should enjoy it! Mother has talked to us, as much as she was able, about the friends she has seen, and little incidents of her journey; and we have told her as much as we could what we have been doing at home, and what has occurred during her absence. And then I have been singing for father and mother some of their favorite hymn and chants, and now it is past nine o'clock, and I am left all alone. This is the time when I write most of my letters - after nine in the evening. A letter from George came to day. His term is now through, but he is spending vacation at Meriden, and employing the time in studying music. He is at the same Academy father attended when fitting for College, and I was thinking a few days since, how very differently they were situated. Father decided to commence studying, left the trade he was

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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 104

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

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Unique Identifier NL11FFPT

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