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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1859

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1835-1859

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 Bowd. College Aug. 13th, 1846Dear Mother, I have just received your letter of the 10th inst. and thank-you for it. It is a little strange that my last letter should put you into such a ferment. I wish I had kept a copy of the letter so as to see what I did write. I was not aware that the letter contained any more than I said while at home.You must have supposed that I meaned more than I said, instead of, as is usually the case with me, saying full as much as I mean. I have certainly not the slightest idea of leaving to go to another College: not though as you hint, because I could not! "Leonard's" certificate of my standing, week from next Tuesday, would admit me with all honor into the Senior Class of any College in the U.S., Yale or Harvard either. But, of course, I have no reason to leave, nothing to gain by leaving. I prefer a Diploma from Bowd. Coll. to one from any College in the U.S. except old Yale, and that I do not care much and to go there Senior would cost some $200, or 300, more, besides that I would not, on ant account, or for any consideration possible hardly. leave ' my own class and all my connections with old Bowdoin.As for my deciding not to perform at Commencement it is only this, you may decide whether I am right or not.

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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 159

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJ4R

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