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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Record Book of letters sent and received, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1852

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Open book Record book of letters sent and received, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1852

Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Record Book of letters sent and received, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1852

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1852

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 Miss Catherine E. Beecher?
To the Directors of the Ladies' Society for the Promotion of Education in the West.
I hear that a near relative of mine, Miss E. A. Rich of Bangor, Maine, is about going out West under the patronage of your Society. I think no private or merely selfish feelings ought to be suffered to interfere when fields of usefulness though they may be at the same time of sacrifice, are opening before our friends. Yet it seems a pity that any efforts or any powers of usefulness should be wasted or not employed to the best advantage.
Miss Rich is one ???fitted by ?? Abilities, Education, Experience, ??ement
and high toned morals & religious character for higher and more
extended ?? of action. Than are usually found in teaching?
common country schools among an ignorant and degraded ??
//lation, When such sacrifices are ne??ry for
be failry met. They are not with her. These are ?? fitted
with far ??? sacrifices of feeling for perhaps equal usefulness in such
situation, whose degree of education and refinement renders them
incapable of some higher ?? of action
I confess myself partly from my present situation,

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 11 Folder 240

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3035px × 4036px 70.13 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_11_fl_240_001_104.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FOK3

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