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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

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 Isaac Elyria Jan 12, 1856Dunbarton.Jan 17-1856Elyria Ohio, Sat. Jan 12. 1856My Dearest OneWell, we have at last arrived here safe and sound. After waiting three days at Buffalo, came here very comfortably in one day, and without much fatigue to Mother. Arriving here I was rejoiced with your letter, that of Jan. 3d written & sent only the day after we started, and which arrived here I believe they say on Monday last. I suppose it made the journey before the great storms, and nothing has gotten through the mighty blockade since till now. I trust you have written several times, and that a number of letters are one the way: and I hope will reach here tonight. It seemed good I assure you to get a letter from you written only even one day after I left there, to know that the little one's mouth were better, and how you all got along the first night; but I am still anxious enough to hear later new from you all. I know you have written, and I think letters will come to hand tonight. We did have rather a long and somewhat tiresome delay at Buffalo, from Tuesday till Friday. However we were pretty comfortably situated at the Hotel. For three whole days there was no Train got through the snow drifts on the Lake Shore Road between Buffalo & Erie or Cleaveland. And at Cleaveland there was but very little snow. At Buffalo, there was not really a great deal of snow, but a constant storm and very much wind from Monday till Friday.

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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 178

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJQB

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