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 Brother G. and I think of occupying the time that remains before his term commences, in visiting some relatives in Boston and Westboro, Mass. This is mother's plan, and she is quite anxious to have it accomplished. If we go, we shall leave home next Monday, and be away, perhaps, a little more than two weeks. After that, mother says she believes she shall claim me, as long as Dunbarton is my home. It will give me great pleasure to comply with her wishes, not only for the sake of gratfying her, but because nowhere have I ever been so happy as at home. I am hoping to find some time for mental culture, and any advice from you, with regard ti the best method of spending this time, I should be most happy to follow. I believe I need as much as anything, to take lessons in talking. There is nothing of which I oftener feel the need than the power of easy and ready expression in conversation. Tupper tells the truth about it: - "For at every turn to want a word, - thou canst not guess that want; It is as lack of breath on bread��: life hath no grief more galling." I think I shall adopt the plan of reading a passage from some work every day, for the express purpose of reproducing it in my own words, with mother and Jenny for my audience. But

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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

Size 2915px × 3638px 60.72 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_104_005_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFOT

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