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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 Home. Oct. 1 1850My dear friend, This is a lovely morning, and I have been wondering if Oct. has brought you as beautiful a day. How delightful and invigorating are these cool and sunny morning - one cannot be sad. And sometimes when there is so much loveliness to behold, it seems too much for one heart to contain. I have just been thinking how pleasant it would be if you were here now, to help me enjoy the beauty that is all around. Do not your situation and occupation, afford many opportunities to gratify a taste for Natural History? - though perhaps you are obliged to be so busy that you cannot stop to examine & enjoy what is to be seen. I was reading, a day or two since, a few lines, describing the emotions of one who loves Nature, so perfectly, that I believe I must write it for you in the words of the author. I thought of you when I read it. It is this - "He feels as if he grew in the grass, and flowers, and groves; as if he stood on yonder distant mountain tops, conversing with clouds, or sublimely sporting among their imaged precipices, caverns , and ruins, He flows in that river, chafes in its cascades, smiles in the water-lilies, frisks in the fishes. He is sympathetic with every bird &

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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 103

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2723px × 3446px 53.73 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_103_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FFNR

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