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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna M. Root (daughter), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1878-1897

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna M. Root (daughter), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1878-1897

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1878-1897

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 Silver Spring, East Providence Tp. Providence Co. Rhode Island. Sabbath Evening. Sept. 14th, 1884.
Dear &c. and the rest of you. We wrote you three letters last week. all along the road.
This is along the shore.
Where is it? Well, if you had a map big enough, or fine enough, you could find it, on the east side of the Providence River or Bay, the north end of Narragansett Bay.
I see the Mother, who commenced writing with me, has told how we happened to get here. It is a very respectable place, a summer resort which does not keep open Sundays. A Farm, 30 Cottages full of summer residents, a small hotel or boarding house with 20 to 40 summer

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 8 Folder 201

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2212px × 3489px 44.20 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_08_fl_201_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FKL8

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