Newberry Library - Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) and siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1854

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) and siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839-1854

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1839-1854

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 A Touch of the SublimeI rise, Mr. President, to argue the causeof the poor man and the rich man, and I believethat before I shall have concluded, you will all allowthat it is a case that does not admit of any argumentIn the first place, Mr P. the rich man declines his emaciatedform on a rich mahogany sofa, cut down, hewn out, madeand manufactured from the tall Cedar of Lebanon, whichgrow as you all know, on the lofty and cloud east symmetry?of the ever memorable mountains of Jehoshaphat Then, MrP he lifts to his endeavors up the golden china cup, made andmanufactured as you very well know in Chile; Peru andother unknown and uninhabitable parts of the universe,While on the contrary Mr P the poor man declines hisexpectations in a cottage from which he retires to the side of someumbrogous stream there to contemplate the vastconstellation and other fixed and immovable satelliteswho devolve around the celestial axeltree of thismatter acqueous firmament on high. And then, Mr. P.he calls his wife and the rest of his little childrenaround him and teaches them to perspire toscenes of immortality beyond the grave.The foregoing was found by me in old Newspaperand spoke in school last Wed. as I could find nothingelse. As I had nothing particular to write hardly, I thoughtI would send it for the peculiar instruction andamusement of brothers Jo et Eliab.And now I do verily declare that, if I havingnothing in the world to say, hardly, can write a wholeletter like this, it is an abominable shame forthat are paddy Joe et Bob, also to write me a letteron a half sheet of paper (not half full neither/ beholdAnd that once a month What I should so wantto know every thing about every thing.3 sheets every week (Full)I.S.M.

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 166

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3098px × 4594px 81.47 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_166_005_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJAP

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