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Metcalf, Harriet Howes (wife), to Anna M. Root (daughter) (also from Isaac Stevens Metcalf; also to Azariah Smith Root, An..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

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Open book Metcalf, Harriet Howes (wife), to Anna M. Root (daughter) (also from Isaac Stevens Metcalf; also to Azariah Smith Root, An..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Title Metcalf, Harriet Howes (wife), to Anna M. Root (daughter) (also from Isaac Stevens Metcalf; also to Azariah Smith Root, An..., Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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 Now don't say where you read this, I can't do it, she don't know me &c. I do know. I know that six years ago, I would have no more thought that I could do the things I can do now, than you think you can make a dress. When you want to do things to please others, you can do them. It has not been necessary for you to make bread, wash, iron and sew much as yet. Your business has been to get book knowledge. Now comes the other things which you can conquer, when you undertake. Don't think about them till next July. You must not. It is not good for you actually morally or physically. It is foolish. There my dear I can't afford to scold you any more. With a very great deal of love Mother

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 6 Folder 142

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2137px × 3414px 41.78 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_06_fl_142_011_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FIIM

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