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

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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 were ready for a quiet afternoon, we heard the sound of sleigh bells close at the door, and instantly were welcoming two ladies who had come to make a long expected visit. The hours passed rapidly away, as you know time usually does in pleasant society, and I went by request to pass the evening with a good old maiden lady of about seventy years, who dwells in a small cottage all alone. I used to pity her solitude, but I have about decided she was made to live alone. She is always trying to do good, and I never saw her sad. Her heart seems a world of sympathy for all mankind. Two more letters have reached me to day - one from brother George, containing the the New Year's wish for us all, expressed in the finest rhyme he ever penned - at least the finest we have seen. The other from my roommate of Merrimack Institute, with three and a half pages of verses, written on the morning of January 1. She has a superior mind and is a fine writer. So five letters have come in this year - quite a bountiful beginning. Last year my letters written were 64 and received 60. I have accounted the books I read also. The number is 25. (How glad I should be to number all they contained - But I hope I have obtained from them at least some general ideas, which will be very valuable and enable me better to understand what I may read hereafter. I have been reading "King Henry eighth" and "King Richard third." What horrid deeds they do record! Enough to make one's blood

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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 2915px × 3727px 62.20 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FFSG

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