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 that you are so well pleased with him. I must seem more like home I think. I am glad too that he speaks so favorably of Jonesboro' as a location. I seems to me it must be healthier and pleasanter than the prairies.You ask what I would think of Illinois as a home. I suppose before this reaches you, you will have received two letters telling you how I feel about it. My ideas are still the same, and my heart still replies to you, "Whither thou goest, I will go."I would like to know a little more definitely how we will be situated, supposing I go back with you in the Spring, but if you leave the very first of next month, I think there will be not time for me to get a reply to this letter, so I leave all the questions for another time. And besides, I presume your next letters will contain the information I would like. I have found this frequently the case - you would seem to anticipate what I wished to know and tell me.I have just been reading of the success of "Liquor Law" in Maine. I should think you would glory in your state. This seems to be the guiding Star in Temperance now; and her light is shining all over the Union. The

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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 105

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2900px × 3815px 63.34 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFSP

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