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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 heard by letter a week since that my Youngest brother, who has been the past winter at School of East Hampton Mass. was quite sick. A letter received yesterday relieve my mind very much. He had gone to Dr. Munde's Water Cure Establishment at NorthHampton, had got better, and was about returning to Bangor. I was the more alarmed about it as his disease was occasioned by an injury something like that which produced dear Joseph's disease. I perhaps wrote to you about his getting hurt last winter a year ago. I suppose it likely that he saved the lives of a couple of girls by throwing himself against a runaway horse which tried to jump over the sleigh in which he and the girls were riding. The force of the blow was so great as to crush into fragments the sleigh even though the horse himself did not touch it at all, being fairly crowded aside by my brother's shoulders. His back was hurt however, and has been lame ever since until a few weeks ago he was attacked with violent pain in the back & acute inflamation of the kidneys, occasioned the doctors say by the same injury a year since. I hope now, this being thrown off, that he may experience no further ill from it. We here at last received the long expected action of the Ill. Central R.R. Co. They have been long delayed by difficulties in obtaining the title to the lands granted them by Government, difficulties at the Land Office which I hardly understand, And which matters were not finally settled till sometime in March. The Orders have just reached us two or three days since On account of the delay, bringing it later in the Season, the work in the North part of the State is to be started before this

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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 175

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 3055px × 3920px 68.56 MB

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Unique Identifier NL11FJIJ

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