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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 below the valley between them, through which runs a small river! If built it will far surpass every other Rail Road work in the United States. The friends of the project are now quite confident of success. They hope to obtain a Loan of $2,000,000 from the State of Mass. If they do, a situation upon that Road is one of the strings of my bow!The Chief Engineer who is now building the West End of the same Road, Abe Johnson, I served under upon the Vt. & Mass. R.R. Mr. Johnson I found at Hoosick Falls N.Y. He recommended me to the Mohawk Valley R.R. and I concluded to go to Utica to see Mr. Brodhead its Chief Engineer. Mr. Brodhead is about the finest looking Engineer I have ever seen, and I think I should really like to serve with or under him. But I found that it was not likely to be decided for two months at least whether than Road is to to be built immediately, and therefore came back to Albany, and down here yesterday. And so here I am to spend the Sabbath in this "great city," I do not know as it is great as Nineveh was, but is is certainly a great city, and great too in wickedness and wrong. How full it is of temptation and how many are ruined by its temptations. And yet how much of good it must contain As one approaches it looks almost like a 'forest of church spires, and surrounded by a 'forest of masts! The masts too in these days are pretty well mixed up with the great black steamboat chimneys.If it continues to rain so very hard as it does now I do not think I shall get very far to church this forenoon, if indeed I try to go at all.

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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 174

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Unique Identifier NL11FJG6

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