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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 Ducoign July 23. 1854Dunbarton Aug - 1 1854 Ducoign, July 23d 1854My Dearest Antoinette This poor forlorn individual did not get any letter from his Ettie yesterday! To be sure he got two in the course of the week before, but then one would have been very acceptable for today, if Uncle Sam would only have brought it along. And the worst of it happens that usually whenever the Mail fails, it is next before a week when I have to be away, and can not get letters. So, I suppose this week letters from you will come by Tuesday's Mail perhaps; but I shall be away all the week, and not get them until Saturday. I am going tomorrow to Centralia and the North Country & probably be gone about all the week. This week I have not been forth? at all. Monday 17th I staid here in Office. Tuesday I went down to Big Muddy, and (by Train on 1st Div. where track has nearly reached Muddy) to Jonesboro. Wednesday I went with Mr. Watson etc. down over the First Div. to Cairo, or as near as we could get to there. There are two or three miles of Track yet to lay there at Cairo.We have laid no more Track here yet, and cannot you understand until it is completed to Cairo. If we could only have had Iron here you perceive we could have had our Track nearly laid now. But there has been no high water to get Iron up Muddy, and we have to wait until we can get it from Cairo. And it is very bad laying Track there now, as they are trying to. It is too hot weather for me to work much any where: and about twice as bad there as any where else. Besides it is necessarily sickly there.

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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 176

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3299px × 4213px 79.56 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_176_012_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJK9

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